1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Ballyglass

School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)

Location:
Ballyglass West, Co. Galway
Teacher:
(name not given)
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036D, Page 01_024

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0036D, Page 01_024

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Ballyglass
  2. XML Page 01_024
  3. XML “A 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

  1. A Story (continued)

    Share Share Post
    (continued from previous page)
    with water and she brought it to the woman. "Good girl" said the woman come here and rack my hair.
    When she was a while racking it the woman fell asleep and the girl looked up the chimney and there was a bag of gold hanging above in it.
    The girl put up her hand and stole it and ran home.
    Then she wakened and she followed the girl and the girl went into a mill and she twisted the handle and she ground the old woman to death
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Moylan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathcosgry, Co. Galway
    Informant
    Edward Whelan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathcosgry, Co. Galway