School: Cushinstown (roll number 3146)
- Location:
- Cushinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Rita Dardis
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 025
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: Cushinstown
- XML Page 025
- XML “The Fairies' Football”
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
- Long ago there lived on Piercetown hill a boy named Seamus Clinton. He was alone except for his mother. His father was killed in battle when Seamus was only but a small boy of 3 years. They resided in a small cottage. On their small plot of land they grew potatoes and their little cow yielded them milk.
One warm July evening the cow strayed from her own field. Seamus went in search of her. Before long he sat down on the hillside to enjoy the evening sun. Below him to his surprise he saw troops of fairies playing football. One of the little fellows who wore a red cap attracted his attention greatly. He kept the ball to himself so long that Seamus pleased with his clever play cried out, Well done Red Cap.
Just when he had spoken he was surrounded by a troop of fairy soldiers who took him and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nicholas Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cushinstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Laurence Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cushinstown, Co. Meath
