School: Scoil na Móna Fliche (Moanflugh) (roll number 10272)
- Location:
- Moanflugh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Deasmhumhnaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0326, Page 039
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- Once upon a time when Saint Patrick was touring Ireland he went into a public-house for a drink. The lady had the habit of not filling the glass when the froth came to the top. She got the drink in a fine pot. Patrick liked the pot, and told her to fill the glass in future. There was a fine black dog near the counter, and Patrick inquired where he came from.
"I do not know." said the landlady, "but he came here a short time ago."
Patrick told her he would call again in four months' time.
He did call again in six months, and this time inquired "Where is the dog?"
"He has gone away," said she, "and he was so thin and weak that he was hardly able to walk."
Patrick then told her that the dog was the Devil, and that he used to drink as much porter as would fill each glass and that he was forced to leave when he had nothing to drink.
The pot is known ever since as St Patrick's Pot.
- Collector
- Daniel Crone
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Maulnahorna, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Daniel Crone
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Maulnahorna, Co. Cork
