School: Baile Meadhonach (roll number 10675)
- Location:
- Ballymanagh, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Micheal Ó Raghallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036, Page 0010
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: Baile Meadhonach
- XML Page 0010
- XML “An Old Story”
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
- Once upon a time there was a girl named Bell Darcy. She lived about one mile from my village in a place called Carheen. One day she went for a walk accompanied by her mother, they came to a place called ''Poul an eisig''. A black pig came out from under the wall. It walked up to the girl and it took a bite out of her dress and tore it. When they went home her mother thought she was getting strange. When they went eating the midday meal she tried to eat the vessel that she was using. She had to be confined in a room. The windows had to be closed except a small hole in the wall where they used to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Fallon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Emlagh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Peter Fallon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Emlagh, Co. Galway
