School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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- (continued from previous page)Magic Bush. There was a bush in Tom Reilly's in this village of Prison which was suppossed to be a magic bush. A near friend of Patsy's bought a set of old pipes for 5/-. He was only a lad then and he used to have the people in the house annoyed rasping at the pipes. They ran him out one evening. He was playing under this white-thorn bush when two little men came round from the back of it and said "Play up Briny".
Briny began to play and the two little men danced and from that day Briny became a famous piper. He went over to London, got married there and brought up his family "on his music". He always had plenty and in the end of his days he returned to Balla bought a house and died happily in Ireland.
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
