School: Borris (B.)
- Location:
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Loinneáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0904, Page 338
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: Borris (B.)
- XML Page 338
- XML “Mighty Mick”
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
- (continued from previous page)coat and brought him to school. She asked the teacher how long was it since Mick was at school and he said about a month.
When he was eighteen years old he was six feet and a half in height. Mick got up one morning about ten o'clock and came down to the kitchen his mother was out working and the fire was out and there was nothing in it to eat. Then he said to himself that it was time to go and get a job. His mother was glad when she heard this and wished him luck.
The next day Mick went to the King and asked him for a job and he said there is a stable over there with sixty horses in it and if you have it cleaned out in the morning I will let you marry my daughter. "Begor", says Mick I will if I am able. Mick went over to the stable and let out all the horses in a larger field.
When he was coming back he saw a river near the stable he thought of a good plan. He went and got big stones and every thing to stop the river. When he had it stopped he opened all the doors were in the stable and after an hour all the water was in the stable. After an hour he went and let off all the water(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jim Joyce
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
- Informant
- John Joyce
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 48
- Address
- Borris, Co. Carlow
