School: Tunnyduff
- Location:
- Tonyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cathaláin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1015, Page 066
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: Tunnyduff
- XML Page 066
- XML “Story”
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)gathered they would take them up in a bucket. They were to put down a rein for him.
When he had all the things gathered they did not put down a rein for him. They ran away and left Jack in the house. Jack was afraid of his life in the house that the man of the house would come up and get him there.
He went through the house looking for something and he found a cow's hide and turned it inside out. He put it on himself and began to peg the dresser with his horns. He broke all the delph that was on it. He began kicking the tables and broke all in the house. Then the man of the house found him and he rose out of bed. When he saw Jack he began to roar. He said to Jack:- "Who are you" I am the divil and if you don't let me out I'll kill you" says Jack. The man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary E. O' Brien
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrickacroman, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Jimmy Cooney
- Gender
- Male
