School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 007
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- (continued from previous page)power. Then the girl did got very frightened. Then she saw an old woman and she asked her why did she pull off the buds but the girl said she did not know and she crying. The girl asked her could she turn them to their own form again but he old woman she could do nothing only one thing that the girl should stay without talking or laughing for seven years. The girl said she would and went up on a tree staying there alone. One day when the king was hunting in the wood he saw the girl up on a tree and he asked her to come down but she shook her head. The King went up and brought her down and away home with him and he married her. After a long she would not speak or laugh. He said he(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ardea, Co. Kerry
