School: Mullach Dubh

Location:
Lisgorman, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Pádhraic Ó Blioscáin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0203, Page 229

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0203, Page 229

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Mullach Dubh
  2. XML Page 229
  3. XML “A 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

  1. A story
    Once upon a time there was a cooper who was a great miser. One day, when he was working near the door of his workshop an old man, poorly-clad asked him for a drink of water. The cooper said roughly, "Go, to the fountain for I never give anything to beggars. The old man stood erect and said in a loud voice "cooper" you are a mean man, and you shall be punished as you deserve." "You are going to take your largest barrel and are going to roll it along as far as the fountain and you will fill it to the brim with water." The old man disappeared. The cooper was surprised and was about to continue his work. But he was compelled to obey the command. He took his largest barrel and rolled it along to the fountain. He was greatly amazed when he noticed that the interior of the barrel remained dry. He held it under the water but in vain not a
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. narratives (~478)
        1. religious tales (~1,085)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Mc Ginley
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromahair, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Mrs M. Hamilton
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dromahair, Co. Leitrim