School: Brúgh Ríogh (C.) (roll number 10229)
- Location:
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Chonaráin
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- A miser of a woman lived near the Lios O Liam. The fairies lived in the fort but they never meddled with her in any way. One day however one of the fairy-men came to her door and asked for the lend of a pot to boil meat for a wedding they were going to have in the fort.The woman had a good pot and another with a hole in it. She gave the fairy the pot with the hole, for, said she to herself the fairies could mend it at their ease. He took the pot and never let on he saw (he saw) the hole. He brought it back after the wedding and it was good as new.The woman was made up to see the pot mended; for she thought she had saved sixpence. She put it on the fire with milk in it for the supper Didn't the pot turn head over heels and spill the milk She put it on a second time and the same thing happened, and she thought, she heard a wee voice saying in the chimney "That's fourpence gone"She put it on a third time and the last drop of milk in the house was spilled on her. "That's sixpence gone" says the wee fairy and he jumped out of the chimney and out with him by the door roaring and laughing.
- Collector
- Mary Jones
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mr J. Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Bruree, Co. Limerick
