School: Montpelier, O'Brien's Bridge (roll number 14875)

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   “Once upon a time there was a poor old woman going around, and one night she went into a chapel to sleep.”

   

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   On the next morning the poor woman told a man. The next night at about one oclock the man went to answer Mass. The Priest said, "Now I can go to heaven, I am for the last three hundred and sixty-five years trying to find someone to answer Mass."

   

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   “Once upon a time there lived a poor old wood-cutter, who was very poor.”

   

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   Once upon a time there lived a poor old wood-cutter, who was very poor. He had a good wife to look after him. He used to go to a wood cutting trees. One day he heard a step it was no louder than the hop of a robin. He looked around him and saw a beautiful lady standing before him. What are you doing here she asked. I am eating my dinner and badly I need it too, said he. If I fill your can with gold would that please you, indeed it would said the wood-cutter. The lady filled the can. The man ran home for a bucket, but when he came back the lady was gone, and a handful of leaves in the can.

   

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   “There was a man one time.”

   

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   There was a man one time. He used to go every night playing cards to another house, and this night they were playing away when the cards were taken out of

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick O' Brien

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Montpelier, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Thomas O' Brien

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   45

   Occupation

   Labourer

   Address

   Montpelier, Co. Limerick