School: Corra Cluana (roll number 14054)
- Location:
- Corracloona, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Caomháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0193, Page 377
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: Corra Cluana
- XML Page 377
- XML “Riddles”
- XML “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
- (continued from previous page)How would you compare a dirty boy with a flannen?
Ans: They both shrink from washing.
What rises in the wood and sounds in the town and earns many a penny for its master?
Ans: A fife
What goes round the wood and eats n the middle and never touches the wood?
Ans: A cow drinking or eating out a tub
- A little boy had to pass this fort every evening on his way to give hay to the cattle. One evening this little boy, who had a hump on his back, was passing by the fort, when he heard singing. Knowing the song, he sang it himself. He was brought before the king of the fairies. "What will we do with him" said one of the fairies. "We will take the hump off him" said the king. So they took the hump off him and hung it on the wall. There was another boy in the parish who had a hump on his back. He also heard the fairies singing and knowing the song, he sang it but he was a bad singer. He was brought before the king of the fairies "What will we do with him" said one of the fairies. "We will put another hump on him" said the(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Francis Clancy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Laghty Barr, Co. Leitrim
