School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 159
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: Killyfargy
- XML Page 159
- XML “The Man who Went Astray”
- XML “The Crock of Gold”
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)guided him home every night disappeared and only for a neighbour's house he would have been travelling all night. He went on till he met a person in the fields and said to him "show me the way home." and the other man says "where are you going to? The fellow says "to my own house". 'You are off your pad entirely" says the other fellow, "and if you go on like this you will get drowned in some lough." Then he turned to him and said "do you see the way home now"? and strange to say whatever was on his eyes before this disappeared and he saw the pad as straight as the main road. He got safely home.
- Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Michael Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Aghnaskew, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Thomas Molloy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 74
- Address
- Aghnaskew, Co. Monaghan
