School: Maghcromtha (B.)
- Location:
- Macroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Deasmhumhna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0342, Page 266
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: Maghcromtha (B.)
- XML Page 266
- XML “Story”
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
- A man with several companions were returning long ago from the fair of Macroom, and when a few miles from the town they noticed a strange, good-looking woman standing in a very lonely "airy" place.
They had a few drinks taken, and were in good humour. They made a bet among themselves as to which of them would go and touch the strange woman. This man said he would not be afraid to go, and he walked over towards her and touched her on the shoulder.
She was, of course, a fairy woman, and that was what she wanted. It seems that she was under punishment, and she was always anxious to get some man in her power to relieve her of some of it.
From that out she put many obligations on him. She used to "appear" to him on several occasions, and compelled him to go each night to a well which he had to cross a river to get at, and bring a gallon of water to her. If he happened(continues on next page)
