School: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí (roll number 15467)

Location:
Glenties, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Cathal Mac Duibhir
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1051B, Page 22_010

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1051B, Page 22_010

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: Sgoil Naoimh Conaill, Na Gleanntaí
  2. XML Page 22_010
  3. XML “Scéal Grinn”

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. (continued from previous page)
    arrived. They set out for the ballock and they were amazed to see Charley sitting by the hearth and to see the cattle in the field.
    They asked him about the cattle and Charley told him that he got them at the bottom of the sea. One looked at the other and said in the one tone, put us into a bag to morrow and put us down into the bottom of the sea that we may find more. Next day Charley put them down to the bottom of the sea and came home a happy man for he had the whole Island for himself.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Padruig Ó Baoghaill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Drumnasillagh, Co. Donegal