School: Wilkinstown (roll number 1917)
- Location:
- Wilkinstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máire Ní Failcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0711, Page 147
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- (continued from previous page)One day the king and queen were away and the little girl was going about through the house by herself and she came to a room where a spinning-wheel was and an old woman asked her to come over and look at it but as soon as she touched it she fell asleep and every person and thing about the place fell asleep.
They all remained asleep for a hundred. One day at the end of this time a prince was passing by and he saw the castle and he wondered greatly at it because the hedges were grown up higher than the castle and the grass was also very high up. He went into the house and he went to the room where the little girl was. As soon as the prince came to her she awoke and everything about the place awoke also.
She told them everything that happened and he was very sorry for her. Some time shortly after this the prince and the girl were married and they lived happily afterwards.
- Collector
- Patricia Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Demailestown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Mrs Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Demailestown, Co. Meath
