School: Bouleenshere (B.), Baile Thaidhg, Tráighlí (roll number 12864)
- Location:
- Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Jeremiah M. Healy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 288
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- (continued from previous page)thing about this woman. Nobody in the parish, or in the one next to it could knit like her, and her delight was to fancy waistcoats for Padraig.
It happened three years after they got married, as Padraig was passing the fairy fort, he heard noises in the ground under his feet. At first he thought it was rabbits. Then he put his ear to the ground and it was voices, small tiny voices.
"Anyhow he got her in spite of us" one of the voices was saying. "If he did" said the other "she was not much good to him for she does not speak a word night or day". "How is that?" asked the first voice. "Because, I stuck a long pin through the back of her head into the root of her tongue".
When Padraig heard this, he ran home as fast as he could. His wife was in bed. When he reached her bedroom she was asleep. He drew out the pin. She woke up with a fright and all at once began talking. So the husband and wife lived happily ever after,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mc Grath
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinclemesig, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Jack Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyheige, Co. Kerry
