School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin
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    Long ago there used be four boys playing cards in a house.

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    this one if she wishes to marry you". She said she would marry no other person but him and before they went away the priest married them. When they were married the priest said to her "I'm afraid you will not get a long life and he took out a cross from his pocket and gave it to her and said "wear this around your neck and nothing shall happen to you". The boy and the girl, father and mother went home and lived happily together.
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    Folktales index
    AT0990*: A Merchant's Son Finds the Princess Wounded in a Coffin
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peg Barry
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Derry, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mrs Barry
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    40
    Address
    Derry, Co. Kerry