School: Páirc an Iarla (roll number 9303)
- Location:
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0273, Page 110
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- A long time ago there lived a child who was very beautiful and her father and mother sent her out of their house to do some hard task and when she went to a lake and saw a beautiful old maid there and told her to come with her and be her house maid. So she consented to and off they went together. She worked for a long time in the house with the old woman as a maid. After a long time she said she would like to go home to see her father and mother once more. So one day she set off in good hope, the woman having paid her. But when she went home they turned her out again. And the poor girl had to back again to the old woman and when she went to the lake she fell in the same hole. She saw the old lady there who received her with great joy. But after the girl being a few days with the old woman she got to be lazy and would not get up early in the morning. So at last the old woman said she would scourge her and pay her and send her out of her house and one day she brought her out of the house and brought her outside of the door and by her magic she let something down from heaven which stung her very much and then sent her home.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Anne Killeen
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Farmer's daughter
- Address
- Rathpeak, Co. Roscommon
