School: Caisleán hAicéid
- Location:
- Castlehacket, Co. Galway
- Teacher: S. Ó Floinn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0025, Page 0126
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Caisleán hAicéid
- XML Page 0126
- XML “A Story - Cinderella”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- A Story - CinderellaThere once lived a little girl called Cinderella. She had two step-sisters and it was they who called her that name, because she was always sitting by the fire on the cinders because she had no clothes to keep her warm. She had a step - mother too and she and the two step - sisters were very cruel to her.
There was a dance prepared in the town in which they lived and the two step - sisters went to it. The step - mother would not give Cinderella any shoes or clothes to go and when the others were going they told her to have their supper prepared when they would return. When they were gone she sat down beside the fire and she began to cry. She was not long there when a beautiful lady came in and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie O' Dowde
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Brigid Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cluidrevagh, Co. Galway
