School: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig (roll number 9668)
- Location:
- Crecora, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Ainnín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0526, Page 059
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: Crecora, Tobar Pádraig
- XML Page 059
- XML “Local Lore”
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
- John Riordan lived in Lemonfield about 90 years ago. He was very interested in foot-ball and one night as he was returning with a message for his mother he almost fell with the fright to see a foot-ball come down from the clouds and hop in front of him two or three times.
John's mother was continually telling him stories of fairies and of the danger of kicking foot-ball after dark.
When he saw the ball he immediately remembered his mother's words and avoided it.
It did not take him long to get home and every step he took he thought he heard the fairies calling him to come and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Seán Ó Finn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemonfield, Co. Limerick
