School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 221
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- Once upon a time there was a woman who had three daughters two of whom were nice and one ugly and she liked the nice ones and she would buy lovely clothes for them and she would never buy any clothes for the other one she would let her go in rags. One night the two ladies were at a ball and the ugly one was sitting at the fire and a fairy woman came in and struck her with a whip and she turned into a lovely lady with lovely glass shoes on her and she and she got a mouse trap and made a coach of it and they got four white mice and turned them into four white horses and put the lady into the coach and drove her to the ball and told her to stay no longer than twelve o'clock and before she found the clock struck twelve and she tried to get away in time but she was late and the people asked did they see a lady going out but they said that they saw no(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Ellen Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
