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School: Árd Raithín (roll number 6260)

Location:
Ardrahan, Co. Galway
Teacher:
Tomás S. Ó Meadhra
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    mansion". Go home your request is granted. When he came home he found it to be so. Yet she was not satisfied till she would get a castle. She sent him back again to ask a castle. He said the rhyme as before and the fish said "what do you want now". My wife wants to become Queen of the sun moon and stars of the sky but the fish said to him go home and live in the ditch cabin again. The man went home and found his wife living in the old cabin. The old saying said "the more she got the more she wanted".
    Told to me by
    Thomas Deely,
    Lissatunna,
    Gort.
    Written by
    Máire Ní Mathúna,
    Tull Oidhre,
    Árd Rathain.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Folktales index
    AT0555: The Fisher and his Wife
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Máire Ní Mathúna
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tullira, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Thomas Deely
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Lissatunny, Co. Galway