School: Calry (roll number 10473)

Location:
Colgagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Róisín Mhig Ualghairg
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0159, Page 258

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0159, Page 258

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: Calry
  2. XML Page 258
  3. XML “A Story of Finn”

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. When Finn was a very small boy he was one day wandering through the woods of Leitrim.
    He came to a small stream and there he found an old man boiling a fish on a fire that he had lit there. He told the boy to take care of the fish while he went in search of bread. He enjoined him not to touch the fish.
    While he was away Finn touched the fish with his finger. It was burnt, so he put his finger in his mouth to cool it. Immediately he found he was very intelligent.
    From that time Finn had only to stick his finger in his mouth when he required to know where the enemy was, or whenever he required to know anything.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. Fianna (~595)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    J. Tucker
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Keelogyboy, Co. Sligo