School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 337
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: Dromlachan
- XML Page 337
- 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)through the window, so he got before the house behind a ditch and he used to shew the corpse up over the ditch. The rich man saw the corpse looking over the ditch and thought it was the boy surveying the house. So he took his gun and fired at the corpse and it fell. The woman said to the man that it would be better for them to go out and hide the dead boy for fear the police would get the body and that they'd be taken up for murder. So they got up and went out and hid the corpse and when they came back the sheet was gone off the bed. In the morning the boy came in with the sheet and the rich man said he was the cutest thief in the world so he gave him a lot of gold and jewels and the boy went home and he had so much money that he never needed to steal anything after.
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Phil Mc Loughlin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Racullen, Co. Leitrim
