School: Carnán (roll number 14031)
- Location:
- Carnaun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0003, Page 006
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- (continued from previous page)tell the oven to boil it it would boil it. He told to go home.
He went to the lodging - house that night. He told the story to the people. In the morning when he was going home the people gave him a different oven.
Whatever he would tell the oven to boil it would not boil only what he would put in it.
He said that he would go again to stuff the hole. He went on his journey again. He slept in the same house. In the morning he set off on his journey.
When he was stuffing the hole the fairy man came to him again. He told him that the oven would boil nothing only what he would put in it.
The fairy told the man that he would give him a cow and whenever he would ask for gold she would give it to him. He gave him the cow and he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nóra Ní Ghrialuis
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisheenkyle West, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Páidraig Ó Grialuis
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Lisheenkyle West, Co. Galway
