School: Maoilinn (C.), Áth Treasna
- Location:
- Meelin, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Cheallacháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0350, Page 271
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: Maoilinn (C.), Áth Treasna
- XML Page 271
- XML “Stories of the Holy Family - Our Lady's Fiddler”
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
- Once upon a time there was a fiddler who could play so well that people came from far and near to get him to play at their festivals and weddings, and they always rewarded him well.
When he became old and his arms trembled as he played, the people forgot how well he played in his young days for them.
One day when he was feeling weak and tired and thinking how ungrateful people were, he entered a Church and went straight up to Our Lady's altar. He knelt down and told all his troubles to her. He felt very sad because he had nothing to offer her while others brought their gifts of lovely flowers.
He came with empty hands except alone the violin which he held in his hands. He wondered would Our Lady like to hear him play and he began to play. The music sounded more and more beautiful until at last it seemed as if the angles were playing heavenly music(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Monica Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs P. Browne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockduff Lower, Co. Cork
