School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 188
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- Once upon a time there was a man who was going across a river one night and he had a pitchfork with him and he stuck it down into the river to help him across and a peice broke off one of the prongs and he went on his way. He was not long in his house until a man came to the door with a white horse and asked him to go away to cure his wife and he promised to leave him home and give him all the gold he wishes to take. He went with him and he brought him into Lough Astural (a lake not far from his house) and into a lovely palace and in the palace was a beautiful lady lying on a bed and the prong of his pitchfork stuck in her side and he pulled it out and the man brought him into another room and told him to take all the gold he liked. So he filled the legs of his trousers and tied them at the bottom and got up on the horse and went home and when he went to count his gold he got nothing but horsemanure.
- Collector
- Rose Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs Rose Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
