School: Tullach (Tullig) (roll number 4451)

Location:
Tullig More, Co. Cork
Teacher:
D. Ó Mathúna
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0344, Page 095

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0344, Page 095

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: Tullach (Tullig)
  2. XML Page 095
  3. XML “Folklore - The Woman that was Taken by the Fairies”

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. One night at a wedding the fairies came and took the bride away.
    In a few nights after she was met by another party on horse back.
    She told one man to tell her husband to be at the school-house cross on such a night at three o clock. She told him in Irish. To have a white horse and a glass of holy water a blessed candle in his pocket a spear blessed by the priest and a cross on top of it.
    The cock to crow three times. When the of farie horses
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Jane Donovan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrignamuck, Co. Cork
    Informant
    Mr John O Leary
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Peake, Co. Cork