School: Druim Mór (roll number 16278)
- Location:
- Dromore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Catháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0166, Page 206
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: Druim Mór
- XML Page 206
- XML “A Good Singer”
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
- Paddy McGee of Owenbeg was supposed to be the best singer in the parishes of Easkey, Kilmacshalgan and Templeboy. He won prises at 'Feiseanna' all over the country for his singing. Once he went to a 'Feis' in Sligo and he won two first prizes there. On his way home he met fairies and they brought him him into their fort. They told Paddy that they heard he is a great singer and they got him to sing for them. He sang for an hour or so and then he stopped. At mid-night the fairy-queen asked Paddy to sing, but he refused as he was tired. The Queen got angry and she said that he would never be able to sing and he never was.
- Collector
- M. Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Willie Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
