School: Tunnyfoyle
- Location:
- Tonyfoyle, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Thréinfhir
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1016, Page 258
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: Tunnyfoyle
- XML Page 258
- XML “An Old Story”
- XML “Proverb”
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)only for the dog he would have to throw the cards away. He also told him that he was in a house that morning and asked for a drink but was refused and he said it would not be long until a corpse would leave it. So Andrew asked him to come up to the house for a cup of tea. When they were going in there was a cow on the street and the little man said that that cow would soon have a good (heir) heifer calf. When he took the tea Andrew left him at the road and he thanked him and they parted. It wasent very long until a person died in the house mentioned and the cow had a good heifer calf.
- If a person who is very good does something wrong it is said 'it is a good horse that never stumbles.'
- Collector
- Phil Joe Traynor
- Gender
- Male
