School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Tralee (roll number 16871)
- Location:
- Tralee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. Bríd
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0439, Page 188
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- One Autumn day there was a man on the side of a fort minding his cattle. He was not long there when he heard the music coming to him on the wind. He listened and he thought he never heard such sweetness before. He had a great desire to learn the tune and he spent a long time on the fence listening. He did not feel the time slipping and the end of it was that it was very late at night when he started for home he had to go though a stubble field . He pulled a stubble out of the ground and began to play the fairy tune. He went in home, he sat in the corner and started to play the tune again. He was not long there when he heard an knock at the door and an old grey person stook in his(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mícheál Ó Mainín
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Boherbee, Co. Kerry
