School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Risteárd Ó Lighin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 013
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- Long ago a man and his son were going to a fair. The man told his son to go a different road. The man met a horse and car, and a woman and a man in the car. The man who was going to the fair asked them for a lift. They told him to come in. He went in. When he went in he knew it was a fairy car, and he knew them. They were dead, and he never knew nothing until he was standing outside the Abbey graveyard. The man was waiting all the morning for his son, and the man soon died.1.
As round as a marble, as deep as a cup, and all the king's army couldn't take it up? A well.
2.
I would go up a roaden, and go down the roaden, and I would take the roaden on my back? A ladder.
3.
A thing goes far for its living, and seldom comes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Neil Lucey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Con Lucey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Skeaghanore East, Co. Cork
