School: Dungimmon
- Location:
- Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mrs Flynn
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0995, Page 134
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: Dungimmon
- XML Page 134
- XML “Stories”
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
- I
There is a story told about Loch Sheelin.
In olden times it was only a well. There was some magic spell placed on it, so that when people would bring water out of it they would have to put a cover on it.
The people would take great care in putting back the cover on the well after taking water out of it, because it was said that if it were left uncovered the water would spread through the country and drown the district.
One day a little girl went for a can of water and forgot to cover the well. When she had gone on a little distance, she looked back and saw the water flowing after her, and was afraid to go back to cover the well.
She ran at her best for home, but the water kept following her, until a man, cutting hay with a scythe ran after her, and cut off her legs, and she could not walk any further, and the water stopped.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pat Sheridan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Charles Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Kilbride, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Sheridan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Dungummin Lower, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Paddy Masterson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 20
- Address
- Mountprospect, Co. Cavan
