School: Carrigbyrne (roll number 4479)
- Location:
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Máire Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0882, Page 506
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“There was a blacksmith livin' in the Co. Wexford wan time an' he was very poor.”
There was a blacksmith livin' in the Co Wexford wan time an' he was very poor. Wan day a gentleman came ridin' on a horse to the forge dure, he asked the blacksmith to shoe his horse, an' the blacksmith did it, an' the blacksmith asked 'im for his pay, an' the gentleman gav im a hundred pounds for doin' it but he said "You'll have to come with me in ten years for I'm the divil. The blacksmith said he would. But before the ten years were up an angel came to the blacksmith an' she said to 'im "You've got very rich lately, there must have been somewan here who gav you money". The blacksmith said that the divil was there. The angel said that he shouldn't have took anythin from the divil. The blacksmith said that he didn't know twas the divil until he had the horse shod. The angel gav him(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josie Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Henry Condon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 30
- Address
- Carrickbyrne, Co. Wexford