"King of Thieves" and one day Jack and the King were out walking when they saw a man coming with a ram and Jack said to the King "steal that ram". "Muise" said the King, "how could I, and the man looking". "I will a mhuirnín" said Jack and off he ran in front of the man.
Jack ran for about a quarter of a mile and then he took off one of his shoes and dropped it on the man's path. Then the man came along and picked up the shoe and said "If I had the comrade of that it would make a nice pair of shoes for our Tommy". So he left the shoe there and went on, on his way Jack went on another bit and dropped the other shoe, then the man came and saw the shoe he said "If I had brought the other shoe here is the comrade". He tied the ram to a post and

"King of Thieves" and one day Jack and the King were out walking when they saw a man coming with a ram and Jack said to the King "steal that ram". "Muise" said the King, "how could I, and the man looking". "I will a mhuirnín" said Jack and off he ran in front of the man.
Jack ran for about a quarter of a mile and then he took off one of his shoes and dropped it on the man's path. Then the man came along and picked up the shoe and said "If I had the comrade of that it would make a nice pair of shoes for our Tommy". So he left the shoe there and went on, on his way Jack went on another bit and dropped the other shoe, then the man came and saw the shoe he said "If I had brought the other shoe here is the comrade". He tied the ram to a post and

Once upon a time a widow and her son, Jack, lived in a little house in the country. Jack lay in bed until he was twenty-one and his toes grew out through the roof. One morning his mother came in and told Jack to get up and put some thatch on the roof and he got up. At that time every person had to learn a trade and Jack's mother did not no what to send him to be, so she went to the chapel to ask God. She told Jack to mind the house and when she went Jack ran off the near way to the chapel and he was there before his mother. He was got into the pulpit and his mother came and as there was no one in the chapel she to pray out loudly. When she was finished Jack shouted from the pulpit "Sin' 'im [send him] to be a thief".
Jack's mother came home but when she came Jack was home before. She bought Jack a new pair of shoes and the next morning Jack set out for the forest of the "King of the Thieves". He found the

Long ago there lived a king who had a family of twenty, ten boys and ten girls. One day when they were going to school a big shower of rain fell and they took shelter. "Dont you know what I am thinking of?" said the eldest brother.
"We don't," said the others. "Each pair of us should marry and have no one in power but ourselves. They were all satisfied but the youngest pair. They went to school and when they returned home they told their father what the others said, and he said it was a good idea. "But why said he "to the young pair. "Won't ye do the same as the rest." They only said they would not "Well," said the king. "I don't know what to do with ye". He went to the druid and the druid told him to make a big barrel and to put the young couple into it, and to put four pieces of raw meat also in it. Then he said

took him prisoner.The King said he would give him the golden bird if he could get the golden horse for him. The young man started to look for the horse. So the fox came and told him to sit on his tail. On they came to the castle. The fox told him to go to the castle stable. And he would find the horse there and an old saddle on him. He said the groom would be there fast asleep and his hand on the golden saddle but do not take of the old saddle and put on the good one for the groom will wake up and get him taken prisoner. When he went in it all went as the fox had said, because he did not keep his promise to the fox.
The King said he could have the horse if he could get him a lovely Princess. The young man got him the Princess and returning got the horse. He took farewell of the King and took the Princess away with him. He came to where the "Golden Bird" was and asked if it were the "night Bird". He took it

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Hidden Treasure Long ago, and long ago there was a man who dreamt there was a pot of gold hidden at Lung Bridge, near Frenchpark, he dreamed of it three nights after other "whereas I dreamt it three nights he said to himself. "what harm to go and look for it" He set off before day-break, and when he reached the bridge, he walked up and down for awhile. A man,, living near Lung Bridge got up very early to watch thieving cattle, and he saw the stranger walking up and down the bridge. he went as far as him and said "is it any harm to ask you, are you looking for anything" or "what has you here so early". The man told him all about his dream. "Never give heed to dreams" says the other man I was dreaming, there was a pot of gold in a certain man's garden (naming the man he was talking to) under a sally tree and I never gave

Píosfam, posfam prátaí rosta,
Bainne mo bhó-sa Bainne do bhó-sa Tátaoi pósta, imthighidh an bothair.Mina, mina, mina moe Catch the […] by the toe If you look you will let him go Mena Mena mina moe Sing a song of sixpence, A pocket full of rice, Four and twenty blackbirds, Singing in the pie, When the pie was opened, They all began to sing, Was not that a plesant thing, To lay before the King, The King was in the parlour, Counting out his money, The Queen was in the kitchen, Eaten bread and honey, The Maid was in the garden, Hanging out the clothes, Up came a black-bird and, Picked off her nose.

an angel.
Jams. As many as likes can play it. The girls get in a row and one goes away from the others and then another gives the name of a pot of jam to each girl and then the girl that went away comes and knocks on the shopkeeper's head. Then the shopkeeper says, "who's there"? and the other girl answers, "The devil with the long horns," and the shopkeeper answers, "Come in. What do you want to-day?" The devil answers "I want a six-pound pot of Blackcurrant jam," and the shopkeeper takes whatever girl is Blackcurrant and the shopkeeper and the devil catch hands and if they can keep her up till "six" is counted she belongs to the devil and if they let her fall before "six" she belongs to the shopkeeper. Fight For Fat Chicken. Any number of girls can play

one tap, if the tip-cat goes into the ring the person that had the tip-cat takes the stick and the other girl takes the tip-cat.
Ghost in the well. One girl sits in a corner and there's a mother and she sends her children ti wash their father's shirt and they come back crying, saying "there's a ghost in the well". (She comes to the well) with them and she says to the ghost. Mother:- What do you want? Ghost:- I want a needle and thread. M:- For what? G:- To sew my bag. M:- What do you want the bag for? G:- To carry sand. M:-what do you want the sand for? G:- To sharpen my knife. M:- What do you want the knife for? G:- To cut your throats. Then she jumps and follows them till she catches them.

Bhí sean-bhean annso le cómhacht aici plástar a dheanamh a leighis cochadh aon cnéadh acht thug sí an t-eolas leí nuair d'éag sí.

day's wages then" said Tom. He struck the blacksmith a blow on the shoulder and put him over a cock of hay. " That's one half of my wages paid" said Tom. "Shall I take the other half" " Don't strike me again", said the smith. I'll give you anything you ask if you leave me alone" said the smith. "All right", said Tom Thumb. "Give me my fathers farm and a purse of gold." Tom got the gold and built a big house for his father and mother. They lived comfortably again as long as they lived.

It wasn't long till she met a poor wretched looking horse. 'Scratch me scratch me, says the horse, I wasn't scratched this seven years" Haven't I enough to do, says she, without scratching a dirty old nag like you" says she and on she went.
By this time she was beginning to get very hungry so after a short time she sat down to eat some of the oaten bread. She was not long there until a dog came up; he was covered with sores and looked starved, Feed me, feed me, says the dog, I wasn't fed this seven years'. Get out of my sight, you cur, says she, lifting a stone and hitting him; the poor dog began to [?] and went away. She had more than half the cake left and what came up but a little robin looking for crumbs; the lassie was so cruel that she gathered up

There was once a poor widow and she had three daughters; the times were bad and thing's were going against them, so one night the oldest daughter say's to the mother "Bake a bannog for me and I'll go away to-morrow and seek my fortune"
The woman baked an [?] bonnog and when the girl was ready the mother took the bonnog and says she, " Which will you take the half of it with my blessing or the whole of it with my curse? She was a rough lassie and says she "Give me the whole of it, your blessing wouldn't take the hunger of me'. The mother gave her the cake and she went off. After some time she came to a mill. 'Grind, grind me, says the mill. I wasn't ground this seven years". Grind yourself or let it alone' says she and on she went.

a wand and turned Jack and his horse, hound, and hawk into (three ston) four stones.
Next morning Tom went to the well and there was blood in the water. Then he said to his wife that he would go in search of his brother that something must have (ha) happened to him. So he set off and he brought a horse, hound, and hawk with him also. He also came to the forest and lost his way. He came to the hut and brought in his horse, hound, and hawk with him. He was not long inside when the old woman came again as before. She asked for lodging but Tom said that he could not give her lodging that his horse, hound, and hawk would eat her. She begged him to let her in that she was a poor woman who had lost her way in the forest. Then she gave him three ribs of her hair and to tie his horse, hound, and hawk with them. Tom threw the ribs of hair in the fire. The witch thought that he had tied his horse, hound, and hawk with them. Then she came in and asked him for some

a wand and turned Jack and his horse, hound, and hawk into (three ston) four stones.
Next morning Tom went to the well and there was blood in the water. Then he said to his wife that he would go in search of his brother that something must have (ha) happened to him. So he set off and he brought a horse, hound, and hawk with him also. He also came to the forest and lost his way. He came to the hut and brought in his horse, hound, and hawk with him. He was not long inside when the old woman came again as before. She asked for lodging but Tom said that he could not give her lodging that his horse, hound, and hawk would eat her. she begged him to let her in that she was a poor woman who had lost her way in the forest. Then she gave him three ribs of her hair and to tie his horse, hound, and hawk with them. Tom threw the ribs of hair in the fire. The witch thought that he had tied his horse, hound, and hawk with them. Then she came in and asked him for some

people say that there were two men living in that fort and one of them wanted to keep her but that the other one did not and he told her to hide and then he came back and killed the other man and that was why he was covered in blood.

Once upon a time there was an old woman who lived in a cottage. She had three daughters and her only possession was one hen. One morning she lost her hen and she sent her eldest daughter to look for it. When the girl went over the hillside, the "Man of the Hills" called out "Your hen trips inside the hill". The girl fell down through a trap door and came to a lovely palace where the "Man of the Hills" lived. She met him and he asked "Will you be my wife?", but she answered "No". So he cut off here head and threw her into the cellar.All this time the mother waited seven lengths and seven breadths for her daughter's return. Then she sent out the second girl to look for her sister and told her that she might give the hen a call at the same time. The same fate awaited her. She fell down the trap door, met the "Man of the Hills" and refused to become his wife. He cut off her head and threw her into the cellar.

The games I play are, Spy, Tig, Cook, Nirds, Colours, Blackman's Tig, Blindman's Buff, Highgates, Wallflower, Dan Dan Thread the Needle, Leap Frog, Sally Sally Water Sprinkle in the Pan, Broken down House, Kitty Four Corners, Nuts in May, The Big Ship Sails Silly Allyo, Jack Stones, The Cat and the Mouse, Skipping The Ghost in the Garden. How to Play Blindman's Buff. Any number of girls can play Blindman's Buff. The way they play it is, they get in a ring. Then one of the girls is blindfolded and put in the middle of the ring. They go round in a ring saying.
"Blindman, Blindman listen to your song. And if it appears too long, Tap the ground with your stick. And give it to another quick." Then they all stand and the Blindman catches one of them. If he guesses who it is, he takes off the blind and puts it on the other person. If he guesses wrong the blind is left on himself.

IV
Má théighimse ag tabhairt an turas sin Ní ag sagart é na ag bráthar na cómhrádh leis na cosa gus a bheith i láthair Ba léor duit a rádh le leanabhán le óinseach nó le amadáin Ní ghar dhuit é ghá tháinigeas ní creidim béal an Phapa. Nach aice a bhí an seanchas nuair a dubhairt sí lom gan spré ar bith Nach raibh blas ar bith ins na sagairt Ach ag saothrú beatha a mbéil fhein. Má léigheann siad na paidreacha i nGréigis nó i Laidín dóibh Ún fios ó Dhia go talamh agaibh nach bréige leath an méid sin. V Má léigheann siad i Laidín iad baineann sin ghá nduty Ni h-iad a chuireas athrú air ní h-ionann sin is Luther Thug se a chúl don Sacrament dhíol se Críost ar Shlánuighthear Mar rinne an gada Judas.

There are a number of old graveyards around my home district, all of which are very ancient.
Kenyon St. graveyard in which stands the ruins of an old Church, Tyone graveyard in which stands the ruins of an old monastery. In Friar St. there stands the ruins of the old Franciscan abbey. Kenyon St. graveyard is very old and there are a great number of old graves and vaults in it. There is one

man is ploughing you will have to go back the same way or you will die that year.
It is not right to burn an elder stick because Judas hanged himself out of an elder tree. If you hit with an elder you will not grow an inch bigger. When you hear a bell ringing in your ear it is said to be a poor soul asking to pray for him. If you marry in May you will rue the day. When a cock crows in the night there is someone going to die.Lizzie Coyne, From my father Thomas, farmer, Kildangan 1938.

man is ploughing you will have to go back the same way or you will die that year.
It is not right to bum an elder stick because Judas hanged himself out of an elder tree. If you hit with an elder you will not grow an inch bigger. When you hear a bell ringing in your ear it is said to be a poor soul asking to pray for him. If you marry in May you will rue the day. When a cock crows in the night there is someone going to die.Lizzie Coyne, From my father Thomas, farmer, Kildangan 1938.

8) Nuair a bheitheá ag aistriú isteach idtigh nuadh ba cheart duit an sean-chat a bhí agat sa tsean tigh do mharbhú is gan é thabhairt isteach sa tigh nuadh9) Dá mbeadh sop ag sileadh le cearc bheadh socraid ann
10) Dá mbeitheá ag taidhbhreamh mar gheall ar an mbás bheadh pósadh ann 11) Dá mbrisfeá scathán bheadh seacht mbliadna de mhí-ádh ort 12) Dá ndoirtfeá salann ar an mbórd ba cheart duit gráinne do chaitheamh thar do ghualainn, mar dhoirt Iudás salann ag an Suipeár Deirneach. 13) Dá léímfeá duine ní fhásfadh sí nios mó 14) Dá mbeadh tú cois na teine agus go léimfeadh spréacha amach ort thiocfadh airgead chughat 15) Dá mbeadh gaoth ann agus go mbeadh peictiúir ar an bhfalla agus go dtuitfeadh sé anuas, chaillfaoi duine éigin sa tigh 16) Nior cheart duit malairt ubh a thabhairt do mhnaoi le cur ar gor 17) Nuair a bheitheá amuigh istoidhche agus go mbeadh eagla ort roimis na púcaí ba mhaith an rud é dul treasna na h-abhann mar nárbh fhéidir do's na púcaí tú leanamhaint annsan 18) Níor cheart duit spré theine a thabhairt do dhuine de na comharsain, agus ba cheart braon uisce glan a bheith istigh istoidhche igcóir na bpúcaí agus an coileach do bheith istigh istoidhche insan dtigh comhnuighthe 19) Ní ceart beirt a bheith fé chliabhán d'airtriú, agus ní ceart cliabhán nuadh do dhéanamh do'n chéad leanbh abeadh idtigh

Tháinig scéal isteach as Sasana gur buadh Blé Ó Chonaill ann,
Cailleadh leis an aicéad í mar tugadh raoirse [saoirse]do Emancipation.Sé an fáth gur cumhadh an dán sin mar nuair a iompuigh an bhean seo leis na Protastúnaigh bhí sé ag iarraidh an fear seo a thabhairt leis na Protastúnaigh freisin.

Tháinig scéal isteach as Sasana gur buadh Blé Ó Chonaill ann,
Cailleadh leis an aicéad í mar tugadh raoirse [saoirse]do Emancipation.Sé an fáth gur cumhadh an dán sin mar nuair a iompuigh an bhean seo leis na Protastúnaigh bhí sé ag iarraidh an fear seo a thabhairt leis na Protastúnaigh freisin.

they had other apples with them. They brought him in and gave him drink and they tried to steal his apple. But when they got him asleep they stole it and went home to give it to their father. When they gave it to him he did not know what to do with it. In the meantime Benjam came in and the king said to him "You are no good, you never got an apple". Just then a little man walked in. "He did get an apple" he said "John and James stole it on him at the hotel. It was Benjan that got that apple". So the king took a bit of the apple and swallowed it. As soon as he did he was not a bit sick. He said to Benjam "You have my castle for ever my cattle and my sheep and all I have". So Benjam got the castle and put the other two brothers away and kept the apple, and any time that any one would get sick he would give them a bit of the apple and would make them better and he and his father lived happy ever after.

could he get any ways quick to the garden. He gave him a pair of boots that could bring him forty miles per hour. He put them on and went outside the door and began to walk and the boots brought him forty miles per hour. And he landed at the enchanted garden. He knocked at the door of the house. A little man came out to him. "What do you want"? he said. "I want an apple for my father, he is dying" he answered. "Well come with me" said the little man. So he brought him into a big garden. "Now" he said "find the tree that the enchanted apples are on". So he went to one tree and the apples were not very nice. So he went to the next tree and they were nice. So he went to every tree and one was nicer than the other. So he did not know what one to take. At last the little fly hopped on his ear and whispered into it. "Take the first one that you came to. Thats the one." So he went back to the first tree and took an apple and when he took it, it leaped back on to the tree again. So he made another grab at it and put it into his pocket and walked out of the garden. He took his handkerchief and rubbed it to the apple and then a big horse appeared in from of him with wings. So he got up on the horse and he flew up into the air and kept flying till he landed at London. And came down. He met his other two brothers and they were drunk and

beautiful tree of apples and they said "We do" and he said "Give me one" and Two-eye gave him one and he married her and the next morning the tree of golden apples was outside the door of the palace and one day two beggars came to the door of the palace and Two-eye took them in and they lived happily ever after and the two beggars were her two sisters, One-eye and Three eye.

crust of bread. One day her sisters left nothing and she took the goat to the bank of the river and she was crying and a beautiful lady came and said "What are you crying for" and Two-eye said, My sisters left nothing this morning and so I got nothing" and the lady said to her say "Mid table come" and she said it and a table set for tea appeared and when she had enough eaten she said "Mid table go" and the table disappeared and when she went home her sisters left a lot of crusts and bits of bread but Two-eye would not eat a bit and this was going on for a time and the mother sent One-eye to see if anyone was giving her food and Two-eye hushed. One-eye to sleep and said "Mid table come" and ate enough and then said "Mid table go." When they went home One-eye said she saw nothing but still Two-eye would not eat anything. The next day the mother sent Three-eye to see if she was getting food anyplace but Two-eye hushed Three-eye to sleep and got the table but when Three-eye went home she said "She hushed me to sleep but how lucky the eye in the middle of my forehead

Once upon a time a man named Pat King lived in Letterdyle. One November's Night his sister and sister-in-law visited him. They decided to do some tricks that were customary on November's Night. They went out to steal cabbage. On the way they met a man dressed in white on a white horse. They got afraid and ran home. When they told Pat King about it he said it was only some neighbour who set out to frighten people. Meanwhile his wife went into the room and was heard to say, "Mary." Mary was the sister's name so she rushed into the room and found the woman dead. A few neighbours came in to sympathise and said they saw a man on a white horse with a woman in front of him coming from Pat King's house. They came to the conclusion that Pat King's wife was taken in the fairies and that the fairy was coming

Once upon a time a man named Pat King lived in Letterdyle. One November's Night his sister and sister-in-law visited him. They decided to do some tricks that were customary on November's Night. They went out to steal cabbage. On the way they met a man dressed in white on a white horse. They got afraid and ran home. When they told Pat King about it he said it was only some neighbour who set out to frighten people. Meanwhile his wife went into the room and was heard to say, "Mary." Mary was the sister's name so she rushed into the room and found the woman dead. A few neighbours came in to sympathise and said they saw a man on a white horse with a woman in front of him coming from Pat King's house. They came to the conclusion that Pat King's wife was taken in the fairies and that the fairy was coming

Once upon a time a man named Pat King lived in Letterdyle. One November's Night his sister and sister-in-law visited him. They decided to do some tricks that were customary on November's Night. They went out to steal cabbage. On the way they met a man dressed in white on a white horse. They got afraid and ran home. When they told Pat King about it he said it was only some neighbour who set out to frighten people. Meanwhile his wife went into the room and was heard to say, "Mary." Mary was the sister's name so she rushed into the room and found the woman dead. A few neighbours came in to sympathise and said they saw a man on a white horse with a woman in front of him coming from Pat King's house. They came to the conclusion that Pat King's wife was taken in the fairies and that the fairy was coming

Once upon a time a man named Pat King lived in Letterdyle. One November's Night his sister and sister-in-law visited him. They decided to do some tricks that were customary on November's Night. They went out to steal cabbage. On the way they met a man dressed in white on a white horse. They got afraid and ran home. When they told Pat King about it he said it was only some neighbour who set out to frighten people. Meanwhile his wife went into the room and was heard to say, "Mary." Mary was the sister's name so she rushed into the room and found the woman dead. A few neighbours came in to sympathise and said they saw a man on a white horse with a woman in front of him coming from Pat King's house. They came to the conclusion that Pat King's wife was taken in the fairies and that the fairy was coming

Once upon a time a man named Pat King lived in Letterdyle. One November's Night his sister and sister-in-law visited him. They decided to do some tricks that were customary on November's Night. They went out to steal cabbage. On the way they met a man dressed in white on a white horse. They got afraid and ran home. When they told Pat King about it he said it was only some neighbour who set out to frighten people. Meanwhile his wife went into the room and was heard to say, "Mary." Mary was the sister's name so she rushed into the room and found the woman dead. A few neighbours came in to sympathise and said they saw a man on a white horse with a woman in front of him coming from Pat King's house. They came to the conclusion that Pat King's wife was taken in the fairies and that the fairy was coming

Once upon a time a man named Pat King lived in Letterdyle. One November's Night his sister and sister-in-law visited him. They decided to do some tricks that were customary on November's Night. They went out to steal cabbage. On the way they met a man dressed in white on a white horse. They got afraid and ran home. When they told Pat King about it he said it was only some neighbour who set out to frighten people. Meanwhile his wife went into the room and was heard to say, "Mary." Mary was the sister's name so she rushed into the room and found the woman dead. A few neighbours came in to sympathise and said they saw a man on a white horse with a woman in front of him coming from Pat King's house. They came to the conclusion that Pat King's wife was taken in the fairies and that the fairy was coming

can leave it and if we haven't better luck that we mayn't have worse than they had. Another ending of his was
They put down the kettle and made tay and if they didn't live happy that we may. 'Tay among the poorer classes was a luxury "in them times". The children looked forward specially to Christmas Eve night "The Big Supper Night" because on that night they got 'the tay'. John or Seanín as he was called had a wonderful collection of stories which he heard from his grandfather who lived to be 95. Among them I remember was The Twelve Wild Geese, The others, alas I have forgotten. He called the above "The Widow's Blessing. At the time he went to work he was about 11 yrs. He is living in America aged about 64.

She's gone on towards the mill says the horse making a kick at her, and after that she could only limp along.
After a while she came to the mill and she met the miller and asked him about the girl. She's hiding behind the hopper, says he, the hag went in and sure enough the girl was there but instead of looking behind the hopper the hag put her head into it; the mill began to grind and it ground her head off. The girl then went home to her mother and they had lán a' mhála [bag full] to the end of their days.John Cronogue, Bunlahy, used to tell this story 40-50 years ago. He varied the ending. There's my story for you, you have it as I have it and if you dont like it you

She's gone on towards the mill says the horse making a kick at her, and after that she could only limp along.
After a while she came to the mill and she met the miller and asked him about the girl. She's hiding behind the hopper, says he, the hag went in and sure enough the girl was there but instead of looking behind the hopper the hag put her head into it; the mill began to grind and it ground her head off. The girl then went home to her mother and they had lán a' mhála [bag full] to the end of their days.John Cronogue, Bunlahy, used to tell this story 40-50 years ago. He varied the ending. There's my story for you, you have it as I have it and if you dont like it you

She's gone on towards the mill says the horse making a kick at her, and after that she could only limp along.
After a while she came to the mill and she met the miller and asked him about the girl. She's hiding behind the hopper, says he, the hag went in and sure enough the girl was there but instead of looking behind the hopper the hag put her head into it; the mill began to grind and it ground her head off. The girl then went home to her mother and they had lán a' mhála [bag full] to the end of their days.John Cronogue, Bunlahy, used to tell this story 40-50 years ago. He varied the ending. There's my story for you, you have it as I have it and if you dont like it you

what way she was gone for she waited to look up the chimney before she started after her.
She ran on until she met a man and, says she. "Man o 'mine, man o' thine, Did you see this maid o' mine, maid o' thine? With the wig, with the wag, With the long leather bag That stole all the gold and silver That ever I had: She's gone on before you, says he. She went on until she met a dog and she said Dog o' mine, etc. She's gone on before you, says the dog, and he ran at her and bit her so she could not run so quickly. She went on until she met the horse and she asked the horse in the same way

on his back and galloped off like a two year old.
She went on then till the middle of the day and then she was hungry and she sat down to eat. She was only sitting down when the dog came up and when he asked her to feed him she gave him part of the bread and he ran off. It was evening when she came to the well, and as she had spared a small piece of bread she sat down to eat it. Just as she was sitting the robin came hopping to her feet, and she broke off a little bit and crumbled it to the bird. When she went to get a drink the well called out 'Drain me, drain me,' and she drained it and went on till she met the hag's house. She knocked at the door, and the hag called out to her to come in.

small caicín [?little cake?] that she baked on the tongs over the gríosach [ashes]. When the morning came she asked the girl which will you take the half of this with my blessing, or the whole of it with my curse, 'Oh, says she, give me the half of it with your blessing and I'll be more than satisfied;' so the mother made two halves of the caicín and then she gave one half to the girl and kept the other. She gave her blessing to her, and the girl cried and sobbed as she left the house.
She went on till she met the mill and it cried out, 'Grind me, grind me, I wasn't ground these seven years. She ground it and went on till she came to the horse. 'Scratch me, says he, I wasn't scratched this seven years.' She scratched the poor old nag, and when she did he put his tail

in the dung heap.

the hay to the cattle and the cattle took her up in their horns and threw her out across the ditch and she fell on feathers and hay and she was not hurted.
So, she went home and, on her way, there was a pool and a few fishes in it, and they said. "Give us a wash for we never got a wash this seven year. So, she washed them and they said to her. "That you may have luck everywhere you go". The girl went home with the wand in her hand and any time she was in need of it, she would strike the wand and she would have whatever she wanted. So, when she went home, she had hundreds of pounds. The second girl goes to earn her living. The second girl that her Grandmother liked said. "Bake me a cake and roast me a chicken and I will go to earn my living too. The old woman did so, and the girl set out to earn for herself and when she came to the will, she sat down and the robin came and asked her for something to eat because I never got a bit this seven year. The girl said to go off out of that. "I have not enough for myself." The dog came along and said "Give me a bit to eat for I never got a bit this

the hay to the cattle and the cattle took her up in their horns and threw her out across the ditch and she fell on feathers and hay and she was not hurted.
So, she went home and, on her way, there was a pool and a few fishes in it, and they said. "Give us a wash for we never got a wash this seven year. So, she washed them and they said to her. "That you may have luck everywhere you go". The girl went home with the wand in her hand and any time she was in need of it, she would strike the wand and she would have whatever she wanted. So, when she went home, she had hundreds of pounds. The second girl goes to earn her living. The second girl that her Grandmother liked said. "Bake me a cake and roast me a chicken and I will go to earn my living too. The old woman did so, and the girl set out to earn for herself and when she came to the will, she sat down and the robin came and asked her for something to eat because I never got a bit this seven year. "The girl said to go off out of that. "I have not enough for myself. The dog came along and said.” give me a bit to eat for I never got a bit this

pail of milk. As she drew near the town she met her school-chum and she ran to meet her but the let fall the pail and the milk was spilt, and poor Betty was left without ribbon or overall.
A Story There lived in a house an old woman and her two granddaughters the old woman liked one of them and hated the other girl. One day the girl said to her Grand mother “bake me a cake of bread and roast a chicken and I will go to earn my living”. The old woman did so and girl went off till she came to a well and she sat down to eat. A tiny robin came and said to her. “Give me a bit to eat for I never got a bit this seven year. So, she threw her a crumb and the robin said. “That you may have luck every where you go”. Then a dog came along and he asked for something to eat and she gave him some. So, When the girl went down to the well the dog dipped his tail in the water and turned it into honey and the girl took the honey parcelled it up with the piece of chicken and bread, and

the nest. The maid again tried to console him. "I love you so dear that I will save your life if you are not forgetful. Dear Jack it is the giant that takes off my stockings and puts them on in the morning. I will make a road to that tree, but you must cut off my ten toes. You will then put them in the three for steps to go up in. Now Jack I only can do this once. As you are coming down be sure and lift the toes." Jack when coming down the tree forgot one toe. When he came out to the maid where she was sitting on the bank, the maid began to shed tears saying "You will live until to morrow night but I will die tonight." Jack begged her to make the road again and that she would get out the other toe and the maid said "it was all in vain."
Jack cried rings round him until he was not worth much. "One hope for you and me Jack," she said, "come at once to the stable and saddle the colt." Jack mounted the saddle and she mounted behind him. Off the set. The giant and his horsemen and hounds followed the pair. "We are done," said Jack, "No" said the maid, "put your hand on the

everybody singing and dancing, the prince who was to be married didn't recognise the princess.
Finally she asked if she might entertain the company for a few moments, everybody seemed willing. She then asked, to have a table, she walked towards it, and she left the cock and hen on it. She then took a few grains of oats from her pocket, and on throwing them on the table, the little hen began to eat + the cock began to put her away. Ah! she said "are you beating me now after me cleaning the barn for you?" She again began to eat, and he again tried to put her away. She said "Do you remember when I cleaned the fell and found the ring for you?" Everybody was delighted, but the conversation between the cock and hen made the prince think of the princess. He immediately recognised her, so he stood up and told the story of how the princess helped him. So he married the princess and they put down the kettle and made the tay, and if they don't be happy that we may.

lest he might fail.
The Green lennet and thrush came to him in good time giving him his orders. First he said you must clean a barn which has not been cleaned for a hundred years and find a needle which was lost there. The prince set to work, but the harder he started the more filled it became. At midday the princess came to him and handed him a little fork, and on using it he had the place cleaned in an hour the needle being there as mentioned. When the prince reported to the king that he had finished, the king was wondered thinking that the prince must have some magic power. The next day he ordered him to empty a well, which was in the palace grounds and find a gold ring which was lost there two hundred years before. The prince started his work brócach enough as he knew well that it would be impossible for him to perform it, if the princess didn't help him. However he made an attempt but the more he tried to empty it the

a little away from the others, and told her of ho he played ball with the little man and asked her if the Green lennet and thrush was her father. She told him he was, but she said "I am very sorry for you to have any dealings with my father as he is very cruel, however I will do my best to help you." She then changed herself into a swan and ordered him to go on her back until she would take him across to the island.
On reaching the palace, he at once went in, and to his great surprise found the the little man with whom he had played previously. The Green lennet and thrush was amazed on seeing him. "O! he said, "you weren't very long in finding me." "No, I wasn't too long in finding you, but tell me what I have to do for you now." "Well I will tell you that tomorrow, you have to perform three tasks, one each day for three days and if you are successful in performing I will allow you home, whereas if you fail I will have you executed." The prince arose next morning more or less frightened

A black dogHe looked with red fiery eyes around him, and snatching the remaining slice of bread between his two great rows of white teeth he bounded through the open door and disappeared in the "Shades".
The girls got terribly annoyed and wished they had never done this trick at all. Of course we would not do such a silly thing as (like) that now. But as time passed by, they soon forgot all about it, continuing as usual at their house-hold duties. Some years passed by, and two of the girls got married, each to the man who took each piece of the bread. Tradition tells us that the third girl got married also, to a stranger, who afterwards was hung for some crime he committed. Peter McDonnell

Bhí na sidheóga ar buille de bhríg gur loct sé an tamhrán.Thógadar isteach sa lios é agus chuireadar cruit an chéad fhir anuas ar a chruit féin agus do chuaidh sé abhaile leis an dá ceann.

Now there was also another man in that locality who had also a hump on his back. When he heard what had happened he made up his mind that he would also go to the fort to try his luck. After a while waiting he could also hear voices repeating Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday - Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Then he shouted out Sunday.
The voices shouted "Who is yon wretch who wants to break the Sabbath - take him in - take him in". He was taken in and they put the hump they took of the other man, and put it on this man and sent him home with two humps on his back.

and below in the hollow he saw a large comoany of the good people. They were singing a monotonous chant, which consisted of the oft-repeated words, "Monday, Tuesday; Monday, Tuesday." Soon picking up the air, Murtagh joined in, adding to the chant, "Wednesday." This was taken up willingly by the good people, and delighted at the addition to their story, they surrounded Murtagh Byrne, and asked him what favour they could do him. Murtagh answered that his one wish was to have his back straightened. Immediately they removed his hump, and placed it on the ground beside him. With many expressions of gratitude Murtagh left the Mmat with his back as straight as the barrel of a firelock. The news of Murtagh's adventure spread far and near, and eventually reached the ears of another hunchbacked, but cross and cantranterous fellow, named Myles McEvoy, who at once proceeded to the Moat, in hopes of a like cure. He also found the good people assembled, and singing continually, "Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday; Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday". Myles without troubling to learn the time or air, shouted discordantly, "Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday." A yell of rage greeted him, and before he could say "Brian Boru"

a hump and he asked the other man how he lost his hump and the man told him the whole story.
The next day the other man with the hump went to the same fort looking after cows and he heard the fairies saying "Friday and Saturday and Sunday morning and the man said "yes Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning" then the fairies came out to see who destroyed their song, when they saw who was there they brought out the hump which they had taken

Long ago in one of the adjoining parishers there lived two old "thatchers", Hickey and Paddy, and both were 'hunch backs'. One day Hickey went for a bundle of scallops for thatching, on the following day It was late in the evening when he was returning home, and being very tired he sat down to rest on the edge of a fort. He fell asleep, but he was not long there, until he was awakened by the sound of music and dancing. Looking about him he saw hundreds of fairies, and a circle of them gathered around him. They asked him his name, and if he worked on Sunday. He said "no," "he never did did so". They took Hickey and rolled him until he thought he was killed. When he got up the hump was gone off his back. So he went home delighted and told his partner, who said he would do the same.

Friday." The man said "rale quick" "Saturday and Sunday."
What will we do with that man said the Queen Fairy. He broke the 'Sabbath Day.' "What kind of a man is he said the fairy." Another fairy answered "He is a small butt of a man and a hump on him." "We'll put the hump that's on that tree on him" said the Queen and they did and he had two humps on him going home.

Bridget Taylor
Bettystown, Drogheds, Co. Meath 65 years of age.John Taylor. There is a large mound in Laytown called the Moate. "Laeg" the charioteer of Cuchulainn is buried there. That is why the village is called Laytown or the Town of Laeg. There was once a man called "Humpy Mohan" who lived in the village. He was called this name because he had a large hump on his back. One night he was beside the moat and he heard fairies singing inside it. Their song was: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Sunday etc. The man listened and then began: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday etc. The head of the fairies then said "who is putting on an addition to our song bring in here". The fairies came out and brought him in and asked him what they would like them to do for him, he asked them to take the hump from his back and they did so. Then he went back to the village and the other humpy man met him and asked him how did he get the hump taken

In the year 192(-) a prominent Dromiskin farmer, an ardent supporter of the late Mr Redmond's Irish Party and subsequently of Mr Devlin's dwindling group, composed the following rhymes, selected the representative characters from his servants and members of his family, and launched a Mummer band but for one night only. They visited some thirty houses in the district and although the views and sentiments of the revellers were directly in conflict with those of most of the people visited they were well received, the organiser being regarded by all as a "gay fellow" and a "leg-puller". Popularly known as "Bill" Morgan, he is the local Peace Commissioner and has been elected as Co Councillo [sic] for this area at three successive elections. He himself took the role of the King of England:-
King George V I am the King of England, I've come to wish you joy, You are more loyal to me now than in the days gone by, I put my trust in Timothy he is a darling boy,

In the year 192(-) a prominent Dromiskin farmer, an ardent supporter of the late Mr Redmond's Irish Party and subsequently of Mr Devlin's dwindling group, composed the following rhymes, selected the representative characters from his servants and members of his family, and launched a Mummer band but for one night only. They visited some thirty houses in the district and although the views and sentiments of the revellers were directly in conflict with those of most of the people visited they were well received, the organiser being regarded by all as a "gay fellow" and a "leg-puller". Popularly known as "Bill" Morgan(?), he is the local Peace Commissioner and has been elected as Co Councills for this area at three successive elections. He himself took the role of the King of England:-
King George V I am the King of England, I've come to wish you joy, You are more loyal to me now than in the days gone by, I put my trust in Timothy he is a darling boy,

With the tail of my shirt hanging out,
I was put to jail for seven years For eating a pot of stirabout etc. Here comes I that didn't come yet, With my big head and little wit, My head is big and my wit is small But I'll do my endeavour to please you all And if etc. The Doctor:- Here comes I, Doctor Reilly, my skill is widely known, My duty is to cure the sick and splice up broken bones. Question:- What can you cure Dr? What can't I cure? I can cure the plague within, the plague without, The hoxy poxy (hocus pocus) and the gout, Fetch me an old women three score and ten With the knuckle bone of her big toe cut and I'll fetch it in again. Question:- Where do you carry your drugs? I have a bottle here in the waist-band of my breeches Called hocas pocas thick and thin, Rise up dead man and fight again. Dead man revived:- Aloft! Aloft! where have I been? Many cruel wars I have seen, I was huffed and puffed into the sky

The following are the rhymes most commonly heard from the mummers here.
Introductory Rhyme:- Room! Room! gallant boys give us room to rhyme, We're going to show activity coming on to Xmas time. Act of young and act of age, An act like this was never acted on a stage And if you don't believe in what I say I'll call in Oliver Cromwell and he'll clear the way. Cromwell:- Here comes I Oliver Cromwell you all (do) know me (well), I suppose I conquered many nations with my large and copper nose, I made the English tremble and I made the Spanish quake And I beat the jolly Dutchman coming home from the wake And if you don't believe etc. Bilsy Bob:- Here comes I Bilsy Bob, Under my oxter I carry a club And in my hand an "ould" tin can And I call myself a jolly old man And & Diddly Dout:- Here comes I Diddly Dout,

Next morning the other brother got up and [and] he went out into the garden and he saw the well filled with blood. He got his two dogs and his dog and he went off. He went into a man and he asked for lodgings of him. The man said that he would. He told him that a hare would be sitting out in the window in the morning and to kill her is he could. He got his gun and his two dogs and he followed them. When the hare would be on the hills the hounds would be in the hollow and they kept like that the whole day. At night they saw a light in the wood and the men drew on the light. There was an old woman in the house and he asked lodgings of her. She said she would if he would his hounds. She gave him three ribs of her hair to tie his hounds and when he got her back turned he threw the ribs into the fire. She gave him his supper and he went to bed. In the middle of the night she got up and sprang on him. The old woman told the ribs to help her. "It is hard for me" said the ribs "and I burning behind the fire. Help us, help us hounds said the man

Out a hound came and he snapped the ear off her and the other came and he snapped off the other ear.
"If you wont leave me like this I will give you your brother and his two hounds back again" "When will I get them" said the man. And she took a magic wand down out of the rafters and she bed him to go down out in the street and to tip three green stones with the magic wand. And he tipped three green stones with the magic wand and his brother and the two hounds rose up again as good as ever and they shook hands with one another. They led the dogs at the old woman and the[y] killed her and then they went home

Next morning the other brother got up and [and] he went out into the garden and he saw the well filled with blood. He got his two dogs and his dog and he went off. He went into a man and he asked for lodgings of him. The man said that he would. He told him that a hare would be sitting out in the window in the morning and to kill her is he could. He got his gun and his two dogs and he followed them. When the hare would be on the hills the hounds would be in the hollow and they kept like that the whole day. At night they saw a light in the wood and the men drew on the light. There was an old woman in the house and he asked lodgings of her. She said she would if he would his hounds. She gave him three ribs of her hair to tie his hounds and when he got her back turned he threw the ribs into the fire. She gave him his supper and he went to bed. In the middle of the night she got up and sprang on him. The old woman told the ribs to help her. "It is hard for me" said the ribs "and a burning behind the fire. Help us, help us hounds said the man

Once upon a time there were two brothers who were very fond of hunting. One day the two of them went out to the garden. One of the brothers said he would go hunting that day. He said that if he got killed the well in the garden would be filled with blood. He got up next morning and he got his gun and two hounds. He went off and he "rug” a hare. The hare ran off and the man and the two dogs followed him. When the hare would be on the hills the hounds would be in the hollow and they kept like that the whole day. At night he saw a light in a wood and he drew on the light. There was an old woman in the house and he asked lodging of her. She said she would if she would tie his two hounds. The old woman pulled three ribs of her hair to the the hounds. She readied his bed and gave him his supper. And he went to bed In the middle of the night the old woman jumped upon him and killed him. And she got a magic wand and she changed the three of them into three green stones

He remained two days with the lady until the fox chase which was to be held near the city was at hand. He and the lady were at the window looking at the chase. When he saw the fox go by, he was anxious to chase him so he struck himself with the hair and turned himself into a hound and ran off after him. The fox ran towards the cliff and swung himself round a briar and into his den. The hound missed him and fell into the sea, into the arms of the mermaid. There he had to remain with her. The people came every day to see would he appear but he didn't. After a long time, one day he asked the mermaid to let him put his head above the water to see his friends. She granted his petition, and he next asked her to let him stand on her shoulders so that his father could see him more plainly. She did so and when he was on her shoulders, he struck himself with his feather which changed him into a rook and he

Long, long ago there lived in Hare Island, a very, very poor fisherman. He hadn't any way of supporting himself and his wife but by fishing. He fished day and night, but caught no fish. One day he went out fishing, but caught none and when evening came, he said that the best thing he could do was to drown himself. He spoke it out loud, and all of a sudden a mermaid rose up out of the water, and spoke to him. He told her his story, and she told him to come again on the following day, and that he would catch a salmon, and to take it home to his wife to cook and that the two of them should eat it. She also told him, that a son would be born to them, but that she would claim him at the age of twenty one. Everything happened just as she had said, and when he was growing up, everyone told him what was to happen to him and when he was nearing twenty one years, he resolved to run away from her.

where the horse was and the fox told him not to let the horse touch the door or the doorcase. The boy saw a nice bridle and on putting it on the horse it neighed and wakened the soldiers. The king came and told him that if he wouldn’t bring the daughter of the king of Greece he would kill him. When he came out of the palace the fox came out to him and told him to sit on his tail till he came to the king of Greece. The fox told the boy to come in after a quarter of a hour. When the boy came in to where the daughter was she and the king were asleep, but she refused to go without her father’s consent. She wakened her father and he would not let her go until the boy was able to dig a big heap of clay that was in front of the palace in two days. Every shovel full he would throw out two would come back on him. That night the king asked him how he was getting on and he told the king he was unable

may hit the master in the face and the master hit the mistress and continue fighting until it pleased her to tell them stop. She took out the raven's feather after some time again and prayed that the master and mistress, the butler and coach man may stop fighting and go their way and have no more to do with her. The master dismissed her on the spot and gave her ten pounds (She had already got ten pounds) She had already got ten pounds from the butler and coach man. Up came a coach and four horses to the gate, with the raven a beautiful man, and all enchantments broken, and off they went to the castle to live happy ever after.

The next night the coachman came with the same story that he was in love with her, and gave her five pounds on a promise that she would marry him. Again she told him that she forgot to close the hall door. "Stay where you are, and I will do that for you," said the coachman." She took out the raven's feather and prayed that a pair of horns might grow out of his head and hold him there until morning. When morning came she prayed to the raven's feather that that fellow may go about his business and not mind her.
The next day she was spreading out the laundry, and the butler and coachman were under the hedge with two sticks to beat her for taking their money. She took out the raven's feather and prayed that the butler and coachman may beat each other while they would be able. The master and mistress came on and she prayed to the raven's feather that the mistress

gave her a feather from his wing, and told her take it out when any difficulty arose and say "I pray to the raven's feather that 'this' may be done," and it would be done.
She hired in a gentleman's house at twenty pounds a year. The first evening the Butler saw her he fell in love with her."I would give all I ever saw, if you would marry me" he said. "Give me five pounds and you can stay in my company always" said the girl. He gave her the five pounds. After a while she told him that she forgot to draw the curtains over the master's and mistress's heads "Stay where you are," the Butler told her, "I will do that for you," She took out the raven's feather and prayed that the Butler may be jumping in and out over the master's and mistress's bed until morning. When morning came she took out the raven's feather and prayed that, that fellow may go about his business and have no more to do with her.

the water as usual. It was dark, and she went astray, so she began to cry. At the same time she heard something fluttering over her head. "What ever you are, will you take me home to my mother"? said the girl "I will, if you marry me. I am a raven." "Begor, I will," said the girl. The raven brought her home safely and then said "I will come for you to morrow."
She laughed at the idea of a bird coming for her. The following day the raven came for her and took her away under his wing to a beautiful castle. She began to cry again for her mother. "Dont cry" said the raven, "I can be a man by day, and a raven by night, or a man by night and a raven by day." I will have the birds of the air by day." she said. After a few days he put her to turn a room of gold in the castle. She took twenty pounds and sent it to her mother. When he came back in the night as a man he missed the money. He told her a night or day she would not give in the castle until she would earn the twenty pounds. Next morning he

Once upon a time there lived a poor old woman that had two daughters. One day the eldest daughter said she would go to a service. "Very well a cailin I'll take you a bonach of bread and a bonny fat hen." "Very well" said the daughter "It will lighten the road for me." She gave the hen and the bread to the daughter and said which will I give the half of it with my blessing or the whole of it with my curse. "Give me the whole of it with my curse." So she went off and her mother cursed her until she was out of sight. So the girl went on until it was dark night and she came to a house and she went in and asked "bean a tig" had she a job for her "Yes my poor creature would you mind a corpse until morning" "very well" said the girl "give me a dog and a cat a book to read and nuts to crack." So at twelve o'clock the corpse spoke and said

There were two men who had humps on them. On one Hallow Eve night on of the men went out to the hill to look for a horse. When he heard the nicest singing he ever heard. and this was what they were saying. Monday. Tuesday. Monday. Tuesday, and the man answered Wednesday. It was the fairies that were in it and they took him in, and took the hump of him, and they told him to go home. The other man thought if he would give them a new word, that the hump might be taken of him also. On the next Hallow-Eve night, he went out to the hill, and he heard the same singing, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and so on

Tigheanna Phoitláirge ab 'eadh Séamas Ó Smeárdubha agus scéith sé ar shagart in aimsir na bPéinDlighte. Mhairbh sé sagart níos déannaighe agus mar sin cuireadh mallacht air agus ar na daoinibh a thiochfaidh 'ne dhiaidh.
Deirtear ná bíonn aenne go bhfuil Sméardubha mar ainm air 'na shagart.

for the dinner and never would return till she would be married. It used to be called sweeping Tuesday where they would be runaway marriage the people around would bring whiskey and tea and sugar and they would have a dance and music then in later days there were cars to bring home the bride in theses cars were like tables with low wheels and they used to have a mat on it to sit on it, the wedding people used to have them before sidecars came out, they would have dancing and music on them. often when there would be marriage or spite with girls over boys they would bury a sheaf to kill him there is an old woman about four or five years dead who buried a sheaf and killed a man and there was a sheaf buried in Brownestown and the man had to come home from America with bad health. The girl bragged a little and the priest got on

There are still people travelling about and begging. Some of them have been doing so for many years. They look poor and their clothes are poor.On Saturday's people come from Tullamore and sell small articles and the people buy from them and they also collect bottles. A lot of these travellers are welcome. They sleep in caravans and some of them sleep in tents. They have their food with them. They accept bread, bottles and old rubbish. Some of them travel on foot and more of them travel by horse and cart or caravan.
Those that travel on foot come singly and those that come in carts come in families and sometimes in bands. The family of Caseys most frequently visits our district.

and pull her off the pony, but they could not so the king's son pulled off one of the slippers off her feet. The king and queen got ready a great hall and gave invitations to everyone from miles around to see if they would get the one the slippers belonged to. So all the girls were cutting pieces off their heels and toes to see if they could get the slipper on. He was to marry the one the slipper would fit. The servant girl was hid behind the door by the queen till all the visitors would go, but no one in the hall could get the slipper squeezed on no matter how they had their heels or toes cut. In came the witch and said boney heels and boney toes is put behind the door hiding. So the king's son found her where the queen hid her behind the door, he gave her the slipper and it fitted her like a glove and the witch had the other slipper and dressed her up and brought her in to the hall and she was twice as nice as any one there. The king's son was let marry her and a big feast was got ready. She sent for her father. the wedding lasted nine nights and nine days and the last night was the best. So if they don't live happy that we

and pull her off the pony, but they could not so the king's son pulled off one of the slippers off her feet. The king and queen got ready a great hall and gave invitations to everyone from miles around to see if they would get the one the slippers belonged to. So all the girls were cutting pieces off their heels and toes to see if they could get the slipper on. He was to marry the one the slipper would fit. The servant girl was hid behind the door by the queen till all the visitors would go, but no one in the hall could get the slipper squeezed on no matter how they had their heels or toes cut. In came the witch and said boney heels and boney toes is put behind the door hiding. So the king's son found her where the queen hid her behind the door, he gave her the slipper and it fitted her like a glove and the witch had the other slipper and dressed her up and brought her in to the hall and she was tice as nice as any one there. The king's son was let marry her and a big feast was got ready. She sent for her father. the wedding lasted nine nights and nine days and the last night was the best. So if they don't live happy that we

went to the spring for a can of water and the witch that spun for her came out from the rock at the spring and said "why do you not go to mass" and she said "I have no clothes fit to go to mass." The witch struck the rock with a hazel rod out stepped a lady dressed in white and dressed her like a queen and put glass slippers on her feet and pulled a small pony from under a fountain put her on the pony's back and said "let you not take the wind , or the wind take you until you are back, and don't look or speak to any one and the poney will wait for you until you come out." She heard mass and was back and had the water fetched and the dinner cooked. When the king and his wife returned the king's wife went to her son's chamber and said "I only wish you saw the beautiful lady was at mass today you'd never look at the thing that is working for us. Next Sunday you'll have to go to see her and if you can't pull her off the pony pull off one of the slippers off her foot for I never saw any one half as beautiful". The next Sunday she went for the can of water and the witch dressed her twice as nice. No one could keep from watching her. The king, the queen and their son all stood outside to try

from your daughter, she wants for nothing".
Once the "Man of the Hills" went away for a day and the girl thought she would slip home. She made a "Straw-Girl", set it in the corner, put a brush in her hand and set off home. When the "Man of the Hills" returned he called out "Where is my supper?", but he got no answer. He flew into a rage and blew the "Straw-Girl" to pieces. The straw flew all round the palace. The "Man of the Hills" ran with all his might to the cottage, but when the sun rose he melted and that was the end of "The Man of the Hills".

dead to cut a strip from his ears to his tail and never lose it. So the fight began and before very long the little bullock was lying dead so the little boy came down from the tree and cut the strip as he was told and went away. He was going along the road and he met a man coming from town and he asked him did he want a boy. The man said, he did, and brought him home with him and gave him work. The first morning he put him out herding cows. There were three giants in a castle they had a beautiful garden. He drove them into the garden. One of the giants came out and was going to kill the boy and the boy said “Jump out Black Thong squeeze him to death” so the Black Thong squeezed him to death. So when he went home they had to send for cans to hold all the milk the cows had. So the next day he went out he let the cows into the garden and the second giant came out. And the boy told the Black Thong to kill him. And the third giant came out and the boy told the Black Thong to kill him. He had the castle and horse to himself then. When he went home that night he heard

the boy would not take any supper for her when he went home. So she went to the barn one day and saw him there. She thought she would never get rid of him so she took sick again, and they did the very same thing, until they had all the cows killed. Then one day the Bracket Bullock told the little boy that he was going away to a forest to fight with another bull, and that the other bull would kill him. And the little boy started to cry but the little bullock comforted him and told him to be ready the next morning and bring a good sharp knife with him and they would go together to the forest. Next morning came and the little boy got up very early. And he had a good sharp knife with him and he got up on the little bullock” back and away they go to the forest. The little bullock gave him his dinner before he went to his destination. Then the little boy climbed up [the] highest tree he could find and looking down he could see the other big bull coming along. So before he came along the little bullock told him that when he was

and pickaxes. They made a deep hole and put wood into it. They them brought the body laid it on top, and set fire to it. They then took the spear out of the head, placed wood under it and set fire to it.
They let the ashes fly with the wind lest it may have any harmful tendencies. Shortly after this the Green Bear of Orange brought home his bride. He was now the owner of this beautiful little country. The spell was broken, and the three women who gave the comb, the scissors, the soap and the needle and thread to the girl were the expelled sisters of the Green Bear of Orange. They were now restored to their own country, three pretty young girls. In a short time they too got married and lived happily ever after. The Green Bear of Orange and his wife were most popular. He saw that all his servants were comfortable. He gave them small holdings, and plenty milk and butter. They never knew what want meant after that.

he was senseless she prodded him under the nails with a needle, and he gave no evidence of feeling. Drops of blood fell on his shirt however.
The girl was then allowed to see him, and though feeling certain that he were alive she could not wake him. He would neither answer her nor speak to her. She wailed and called him by his name until the servants in the next room heard her. They did not speak just yet. The girl who was an excellent worker was now in the witch's employment. Nobody could wash the blood off the shirt of The Green Bear of Orange who retained his natural shape all the time while in his own land. Again, the witch asked the girl to wash the shirt. She did so, and with very great success but on the same condition as on the previous occasion. The witch granted her request but again she gave the Green Bear of Orange a draught which rendered him senseless. Again she prodded under his nails to make

kindness to the poor or to his neighbours, the good things of the world he possessed such as cows, butter, milk, pigs, etc.
When the rhyming was over, the men would begin singing & continue all through the night. When they got tired singing the[y] played games such as "who had the button" & Hens fly, asses fly etc. The final game was called the "Cliffocks" "Is it me sir?" etc. The person who washes the clothes after a funeral must not be a relation of the household. The sheets over the corpse are washed and the four corner of each sheet is dipped in spring water & then doubled up & and put on a table with a blanket underneath. With a flat [bal?]-stick the sheets are battered until pressed. The sheets were made of pure linen and the one pair would do two or three townlands.

The sticks fell on one of them,
And then there were six, Six little niggers went to a hive, The bee stung on of them And then there were five, Five little niggers went to Glenismole The stones fell on one of them, And then there were four, Fours little niggers went to Ardnaree, The police caught one of them. And then there were three, Three little niggers went into a shoe, The shoe swallowed one of them, And then there were two, Two little niggers went for a run, A stone fell on one of them, And then there was one, One little nigger went to turn home, The fox caught that one, And then there was none

go láimh bféidir agus caithfidh an dara paiste toisiú airis le pee, paw agus mar sin.
Is minic a leantar ceann sgaitíní maith seo sul a mbidh an t-ádh ag an darta páiste.Hide and Seek. B. Cluithche é seo a imrightear san Gheimreadh san bhFóghmhar. Cruinnigheann na páistí [?] agus pioctar amach beirt le dul i bfolach i dtosach. Seo mar pioctar amach iad-: Deireann duine amháín an rann seo foc [?] aghaidh gach duine. Ina, deena, dina deo, catch a nigger by the toe. If he screeches let him go Ina deena dina doe. Seo ra[nn eile]: Two and two a two penny loaf two and two is out. Cébí duine a thuitfeas an focal "out" nó "doe" air caithfidh sé seasamh amach an gcómhludar. Deirtear an rann airís leis sara duine a fhágail amach. Nuair atá an beirt fáighte amach tóg an beirt áit le dul i bhfolach ann agus tug dún ar an áit sin. Nuair atá a péire

Cure for the toothache.
Peter lay on a marvel stone, and who passed by but God alone. What ails thee. Peter said Our Lord, "Lord it is the toothache, arise and follow me and thou shall be cured, those who keep this prayer in mind shall never be troubled with the toothache again. Cure for the strain. When Our Saviour was riding on his ass Our Saviour's ass slipped, and fell. Our Saviour came down to make all things right. Blood to Blood, and Bone to Bone and every sinew to it's own place again. Cure for the nettle sting Rub a docken leaf to wherever the

gold in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost.
(2) Take out a piece of lighted coal from the fire and point it at the sore spot in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost. Amen.Toothache Tradition in the district has it that any one who says this prayer three times a day when the have the toothache will never be troubled with toothache again. "Once while Jesus, and his Apostles were walking round a lake, Peter lay on a marble stone. 'What ails you Peter' said the Lord. 'Lord it is the toothache' answered Peter. 'Get up Peter' said the Lord 'and you shall be healed'." Though this to me does not take the form of a prayer I have given it word for word as it was optained from an old man in the country. Strain Some people in the district are known to have to cure of the strain. In the making of this 'charm' these people call on the name of God. Here are the words they use

Some people have cures for certain diseases. Miss Anne Hynch of Drumavaddy has a cure for the Jaundice. A little boy named Francis Herron of Bridge Street who was born after his father's death has a cure for the sore mouth.
Mr. McCabe of Ballinlough and Mrs. O'Reilly of Chapel Road have a cure for a sprained ankle. A sprain is generally cured by rubbing or massaging the affected part while saying the following prayer: "As Jesus went forth on His Ass, The ass's fore-leg slipped; As Jesus lit [note: = alighted] to cure the wound, He said, 'Bone by bone and knit by knit, I heal it' and Christ Jesus cured it."

Máire Breathnach a thug dom. Uncail le Eibhlis Uí Bruadar a cheap.Mo chreach géar fhada agus mo dheacair
A bhuachaill óig na gcuachán bachall Go raibh do chúl buí buacach casta Ar shon gur tú a bhí marbh Oíche le Sheán ná dteinnteacha cnámha ar lasadh Go dtabharfá an craobh a bheadh an scéimh na bharra Lá le deaglán go mbeadh na cábáin Ag bruach ar uaigh ded' dhearga. A dritheaír óig

Mo chreach géar fhada agus mo dheacair
A bhuachaill óig na gcuachán bachall Go raibh do chúl buí buacach casta Ar shon gur tú a bhí marbh Oíche le Sheán ná dteinnteacha cnámha ar lasadh Go dtabharfá an craobh a bheadh an scéimh na bharra Lá le deaglán go mbeadh na cábáin Ag bruach ar uaigh ded' dhearga. A dritheaír óig

Caoineadh eile a thug Eibhlís bean Uí Bhruadar dom.
Mo chreach géar fhada ‘s m’athcuirse inglanach ‘S agam-sa tá fios cad do chlaoidhe tú Moichéirghe na maidne is ragairne na h-oidche Agus lámh ró chruaidh aige fear do tighe leat. Cloisim iad a rádh go bhfuil an lá ag gealadh Agus é in am agam féin a bheith ag dul abhaile Ní hé m'áthair is fear tighe orm Ná mo mháthair atá fritheaíl bídh orm An fear athá go mbuanaí Críost leis Nuair a iarras cead níor bhac sé ant-slighe orm Acht sé dubhairt an bhean ós air a bí an bríste Ná go gcaithfinn-se an lá a chur in áit na h-oidche.

Caoineadh eile a thug Eibhlís bean Uí Bhruadar dom.
Mo chreach geár fhada ‘s m’athcuirse inglanath ‘S agam-sa ta fios cad do chlaoidhe tú Moichéirghe na maidne is ragairne na h-oidche Agus lámh ró chruaidh aige fear do tighe leat Cloisim iad a rádh go bhfuil an lá ag gealadh Agus é in am agam féin a bheith ag dul abhaile Ní hé m'áthair is fear tighe orm Ná mo mháthair atá fritheaíl bídh orm An fear athá go mbuanaí Críost leis Nuair a iarras cead níor bhac sé ant-slighe orm Acht sé dubhairt an bhean ós air a bí an bríste Ná go gcaithfinn-se an lá a chur in áit na h-oidche.

III.
(Gaol dó a chaoin an bhéarsa seo) Mo chreach géar fhada agus mo chumann Gluais le Jack Ruadh agus liom-sa Go tigh Sheamuis Uí Mhuirgéasa sa Churra Nó go tigh Phárdraig d’árdann na dtigthe Nó go h-Árd Mhór ar bruach an uisge Mar a líonfaí ann duirt poinnte agus gloinne Agus tú chur go dtí Cáit bhocht saor gan uisge A bhráthairín ó.

Sé caoine a dhein bean ó Chaisleán t-sléibhe gurbh ainm di Máire Ní Dhongáin. Is amhlaidh d'imigh an t-aon driotheár amháin a bhí aici. Gabha ba eadh é agus thug sé aghaidh ar bhun Abha Bhrighde agus tar éis tamaill do phós sé ann agus do bhí ag obair leis na chéardchain. Ach de réir gach dealramh ní raibh mórán cheana ag a bean air.
Bhíodh Máire, an deirfiúr, i gcónaí ag cur a thuairisce, ach ní fuair sí aon scéal air ar feadh na bliadhanta. Fé dheire do bhuail fear déirce chuichi agus d'inis sé do go raibh an driotháir ina chónaí cois bha Bhrighde gus ná raibh a saol ar a thoile aige, de cionnta a mhná. D'éirigh Máire agus dúirt sí go raghadh sí go dtí é. D'imigh sí léithe siar ar fad di shiúl a cos gur tháinigh sí cóngarach do áit cónaithe a driotheár. Chuaidh sí isteach go dtí tig

Ag seo scéal i dtaobh bean bocht a bhí cráite ag a fear mar bhíodh sé i gcónaí ag maighistridheacht uirthi. Ní raibh cead aici uaidh aon ní do dhéanamh ach freastail air. Lá dá raibh sé ag obair ins an bpáirc do chuir sí ubh ar an tine chun é bheiriú di féin. Nuair tháinigh sé isteach agus nuair a chonaic sé an ubh aice ba d'obair gur leag sé an tig uirthi agus le neart na rachtaí feirge tháinigh air do phléasc ar an intinn aige agus do thit sé siar marbh ar an úrlár.
Do ghlaoch sí ar na comharsain agus do chuireadh i gcóir a thórramh, i ndar ndóigh do chrom an bean bocht é caoine, ach ba mhó é a h-áthais ná a bróin. Ba seo mar a deireadh sí - "Buíochas le Dia agus le Muire Gheobhaidh mé suí feasta ag an tine Ubh mo chirce féin d'ithe Agus ní bhfuighfidh sé teacht im ghoire Nach minic a thóg sé mo thuise

Ag seo caoineacháin ar Mháire Paor ó iacandara do cheap a deartháir di agus í ghá tórramh. D'fhág sí seisear cloinne ina diaidh go beo bocht agus seo mar a dúirt sé nuair do shrois sé seomra an tóramh.
"Mo chreach géar fada agus mo athtuirse nimhneach Nuair a bheidh páistí an bhaile seo ar an gCnocán is aoirde Beidh do páistí-se ar an gcnocán is ísle Beidh a ndrom gan dúnadh is a gceann gan cíoradh Agus an bhean a chruinnigh iad in Reilig an Bhuidhe-Chnoic".

had to part with each other then.
The woman went back amongst the fairies whilet the man went to the top of the hill where the king was living. He reached it without delay and the man at the door spoke to him, "Where are you going or what do you want." The man said he had a special message for the king. "Stay as you are" he said and I will see the king." He then went into the king and he said, " I was looking for my wife a long time. She is here and I would be very thankful to you if you would tell me how I would recognize her because I here there are two hundred woman here like her." There will be a green top on her shoe to morrow answered the king. The king went away before the man could thank him. The king told the truth because at twelve o'clock the next day the two hundred women were walking round

on top of the hill at that time. He walked to the nearest house and he knocked at the door. As soon as he knocked at the door a crowd of fairies came out to him.
What do you want or why did your likes come here" one of them enquired. I came in search of my wife, answered the man. "Is that true," asked the fairy. "Yes" replied the man. "Well she is here" answered the fairy " and two hundred more just like her. Unless you know her you will never get her and remember that all the other women are like her." "If there were a thousand women in it I would know my wife," said the man. The small fairy woman took out a piece of money and she put it in her mouth and whistled, When she whistled two hundred women ran in out of the other houses. The man walked up to them and

of her at all. He said that there was a fort ten miles from his house where fairies lived. "Go to the fort and you might hear of her"
That gave courage to the man and he thanked the King and he went to the fairy fort. There was a small stream near the fort. He walked on one side of the stream and it was not long until he came to a lake. There were six swans swimming on the lake. It was a surprise to see swans so far inland on a small lake. The area of the lake was about ten square feet. The man did not speak a word. He was not gone far past the lake when he heard a voice say, "Do not go up to the fort or you will never come down alive". The man looked out over his shoulder until he would see who spoke. He did not see anybody. He did not heed the voice but he walked up to the hill where the fort was. There were small houses

answered the man. "I liked her very much and my heart is broken after her." "I do not like a man that likes his wife," said the king. "and worse than that I have no tidings of her. I saw a pair of swans on the lake yesterday and maybe she was one of them. You better keep journeying on until you reach the place where my brother is living. Inquire for the King of the Fire and he might be able to tell you about her.
The man was thankful to the king when he did not kill him and after three days he reached the house of the King of the Fire. The King did not see her at all. "I have a brother who is living about three days walk from he. He is called the King of the Air. He might be able to tell you about her." After three days the man reached the house of the King and he asked him did he hear about his wife. The King had not seen her or heard

He said "I'll do anything in the world to release you."The first night came and the miller went into the castle. He got a bed ready for himself, and went to bed. At about 12 o'clock in the night three gobblers or ghosts came down the chimney. They set a table in the middle of the floor, and began to play cards on it. After a while, one of the gobblers saw the miller. He said to the others, "Look at the miller of Kernborn listening to all our secrets." So those horrible gobblers pulled the miller out of bed. They threw him from wall to wall, and from one to the other, until they had him half killed. Then the cock crew and they had to go. So up the chimney they went again. Then the lady came in and said "Breábhó [bravo] you behaved very good." She rubbed ointment of his sores and he was as good as ever again. She then disappeared. The next night came and the miller entered the castle. The same thing happened him. On the third night the gobblers thought that they had him killed after the night before but they hadn't.

There was once a miller living in a place called "Kernborn". One day he saw a fish giving a jump in the water behind his mill. He had a roll of barred wire in his hand, and he put out the wire to hit the fish. The fish immediately said "don't hit me for I'm not a fish, I'm a lady," I'm held as a captive here for three hundred years by some enchantment." The miller said "Is there anything that could release you." She replied, "If you sleep for three nights in yonder deserted castle, I shall be freed from my captivity.

she found the needle.
"I have still another job to do said he, "to build a house and thatch it with birds' feathers". "I will do it for you", said she, and she had it built and thatched for dinner time. The King's son then went to Darby Red Beard and told him the jobs were done, and he had to get the Cloak of Darkness, The Sword of Lightning, and the Seven-League-Boots. He married the young girl, and brought her home to his father's castle and they lived happy ever after.

and find a ring that was at the bottom.
The second job was to clean out a stable which was never cleaned for one hundred years, and find a needle that was lost there. The third job was to build a house and thatch it with one feather from every bird in the air. He started next morning bailing the lake with a bucket. As fast as he threw the water out, it came in again. He did not know what to do, and he sat down until his breakfast was brought to him by a young girl. She asked him what was he doing and he said he should drain the lake. She told him not to be troubled, and she would help him. She threw out one bucket of water and the lake dried up, and she found the ring. "I have still another job to do now". "It is to clean out a stable". "I will do it for you", said she, and she threw out one shovel-full, and all the manure disappeared and

Long ago there lived a King in Castle Farm he had one son and he was the best hand-ball player in Ireland. His father built a large alley for him in the Castle-yard. One morning he went out to play, and he met a small man. The little man challenged him to play. The king's son agreed, and they played for wish. The little man won the game. He told the King's son that he should find Darby Red Beard's Castle in the land of Nowhere, and bring back home with him the Cloak of Darkness, The Sword of Lightning, and the Seven League Boots. The little man gave him a year and a day to do the job. The King's son told his father. His father gave him a ball, and told him follow the ball wherever it would go, so he started on his journey and the ball led him to a castle in a lonely wood. He asked lodgings for the night and he was made welcome by

The following was supplied by Mary Flynn (pupil). She heard it from her mother, living presently in Cloonduane. Mrs Flynn remembers hearing the tale from John Connor of Curabaun - Mrs Flynn's native place.
Mrs Flynn says John Connor died 25 years ago at the age of 90 years. His home and land have passed into strange hands, he himself being the last of the family, all his life was spent in Curabaun. Many a year ago, there lived a widow and her two daughters. They were very poor and had nothing in the world to live on. The father, God rest him, was dead since the girleens were weesha (very small). One night, their mother was in great want, not a scrap of [food?] in their humble house. She told the daughters that one of them would have to go to earn money and food for them. This is how she decided which girl should go. She made a little oatmeal cake and baked it, (keeping it from falling by a small sod of turf) before the fire.

The following was supplied by Mary Flynn (pupil). She heard it from her mother, living presently in Cloonduane. Mrs Flynn remembers hearing the tale from John Connor of Curabaun - Mrs Flynn's native place.
Mrs Flynn says John Connor died 25 years ago at the age of 90 years. His home and land have passed into strange hands, he himself being the last of the family, all his life was spent in Curabaun. Many a year ago, there lived a widow and her two daughters. They were very poor and had nothing in the world to live on. The father, God rest him, was dead since the girleens were weesha (very small). One night, their mother was in great want, not a scrap of [food?] in their humble house. She told the daughters that one of them would have to go to earn money and food for them. This is how she decided which girl should go. She made a little oatmeal cake and baked it, (keeping it from falling by a small sod of turf before the fire).

There was a King once upon a time who was very sick. The Doctor told him that the only cure he could get was to grow an apple tree in his garden. When the apples were about to ripen on the tree, he had a gardener to care the tree. One night at twelve o clock he saw a big bright bird that lit up the whole garden come and steal an apple. The king told the gardener to employ his three sons to guard the tree. The first night the eldest son guarded the tree and the big bird came and took away an apple. The gardener’s son took a feather out of his wing with his bow and arrow. The next night the second son kept guard but fell asleep. The bird came and took another apple. The third night the youngest son was on guard and he took a feather out of the birds wing also. The king said he would give half his kingdom to whoever

her, When he arrived home there was a great welcome for him but he would not let anyone kiss him. A few days later when out walking with his old hunting dog the dog jumped up and licked his face and from that day (to this) he forgot all about the Knight daughter. She wandered from house to house begging a bit to eat. After a few years the kings son got married and had a great wedding. There were hundreds of guest present and among them was the Knight daughter. During the feast someone said that everyone present would either have to tell a story or sing a song. When the Knights daughters turn came she said she could neither sing nor dance but that she could play a trick for them. She got a cock and a hen and a fist of corn and left them on the table. The cock started eating but when the hen tried to get a bite he nibbled her away. The hen said to the cock "You would not do that when I cleaned the well for you." He nibbed her back again and she said "You would not do that when I killed my father for you." Then he though of it and they were married and they lived happily ever after.

middle of the lake.The next day he went to the well to find the ring, but when he saw how deep it was he said that it was impossible for him to find the ring. So he sat beside the well for a long time thinking that his life was in danger. Then he saw the girl coming with the dinner. He asked her how could be find the ring and she answered "If you sit down to your dinner I will get it for you". He sat down to his dinner and in a second she dived into the well and returned with the ring in a short time.
The next day he started cutting down the enchanted wood for for every tree he cut down two more would grow in its place. He did not know what to do when he saw the magician's daughter coming

There was once a boy who always carried with him a pack of cards. One night he was coming from caelidhing and he met a man whose name was Blue Beard of Ivy Land. The boy whose name was Jack asked Blue Beard if he would play a good game of cards. Before the started Blue Beard said that they would have three games and if Jack won he could make three wishes. (If he did not. B) Jack won the first two games and wished for a castle and plenty of money. Blue Beard said that his wish was granted. He won the last and said that if Jack had not found where he lived in one year and one day he would have his head cout off. Jack did not know what to do and and at last he went to a very wise old woman. She said that her sister had control over all the birds of the air, the fishes of the sea, and the

He said "I'll do anything in the world to release you."The first night came and the miller went into the castle. He got a bed ready for himself, and went to bed. At about 12 o'clock in the night three gobblers or ghosts came down the chimney. They set a table in the middle of the floor, and began to play cards on it. After a while, one of the gobblers saw the miller. He said to the others, "Look at the miller of Kernborn listening to all our secrets." So those horrible gobblers pulled the miller out of bed. They threw him from wall to wall, and from one to the other, until they had him half killed. Then the cock crew and they had to go. So up the chimney they went again. Then the lady came in and said "Breábhó you behaved very good." She rubbed ointment of his sores and he was as good as ever again. She then disappeared. The next night came and the miller entered the castle. The same thing happened him. On the third night the gobblers thought that they had him killed after the night before but they hadn't.

had a little pity for him "Here," she answered, "go up in the loft and sleep there till morning. Do [not] make any noise whatsoever and when it is day take the road again." He went up in the loft and he was just above when the King of the Waters came in. "Who came here," he inquired, "I saw the footstep of a person on the path before me." She was so much afraid that she had to tell him that a person came to the door and that he was up in the loft.
"Come down here," the King of the Waters roared out. The poor man came down from the loft. He was shivering afraid. "Who are you," asked the King. The man told him that his wife was missing and that he was looking for her, and he only wanted lodgings until morning. "Did you get any tidings of your wife," inquired the king. "I have not,"

said to one of them, "You are my wife."
It was his wife he spoke to and she whispered."You will have to ask the king to let me home with you. If you please him he will do so." "Alright said her husband "but what happened when you left me. I am very sad since." "I could not help it" she replied. A man came to the door and asked me to show him the way to the fort. When we came as far as the stream the man threw a few drops of water on himself and he became a swan. He went into the water then and he began beating the water with his wings. He threw some of the water on me and I became a swan also. I am under witchcraft since at the fairies. That is why I left you. Do not make a mistake to be mannerly before the king! They

answered the man. "I liked her very much and my heart is broken after her." "I do not like a man that likes his wife," said the king. "and worse than that I have no tidings of her. I saw a pair of swans on the lake yesterday and maybe she was one of them. You better keep journeying on until you reach the place where my brother is living. Inquire for the King of the Fire and he might be able to tell you about her.
The man thankful to the king when he did not kill him and after three days he reached the house of the King of the Fire. The King did not see her at all. "I have a brother who is living about three days walk from he. He is called the King of the Air. He might be able to tell you about her." After three days the man reached the house of the King and he asked him did he hear about his wife. The King had not seen her or heard

There is a field in Grange called the Nooks because it is low and has a lot of little nooks in it

There is a field in Grange called the Nooks because it is low and has a lot of little nooks in itTold by Mrs Beggs (labourer) 75 yrs
Westpalstown Oldtown Co Dublin Written by Kathleen Finnegan Murragh, Oldtown, Co Dublin

It is said that if anyone who has measles drinks the milk left after a ferret it would cure them.
There is a holy well in Skehanore and if you visited it on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and said certain prayers it would cure eyes. By washing the eyes with the water of the well any sores would be cured. It is said that if you licked an eascu-luachra it would cure a burn.

drowned in milk in the hallow. The priest wouldn't let her be buried in a graveyard so the daughter buried her in a sandpit and when she was away burying her, the people turned out and burned the house in which they were living. The daughter went away and she never came back.

These are the games we play. "Frog in the middle", "Killock", "Jenny Joe", "Here is the robbers coming through", "Grandmother Gray", "Four Corners", "Tip", "Fox and chickens", and "Hide and go seek".
We make daisy chains and plaits out of rushes. We pick cherries, blackberries and mushrooms. The boys make traps for rabbits, hares, and birds and they play football and handball. On winter nights we play Dallóg, and we say houses, and we tell stories of fairies, and we

that has got the tig, runs after a certain person and they get into the chain and so on till everyone is in the chain (this is the reason for its name). The last girl that is caught is the one that will have the tig for the next game.

Donkey, Cards, Draughts, Dead horse, Shipping Buttny, King of the castle, Blind man's buff, Tom fool the middle man, Hide and go seek, Grannies big needle Rotten egg, marbles Cat and dog Frog in the well, Riddles, Story telling, Sea-saw Wall flowers, Weighing the butters, Nuts and May, Jumping, snakes and ladders, Dice, Swiss, Tennis Egg and spoon race, Jacks, Skittles, Lazy Mary Ping Pong, The big ship sails Ring the dish cloth, Colours Sledding.How Hide and go seek is played. Some person goes away to hide in some Corner and some other person goes to look for him it can be played indoor.
How Buttny is played. A person goes to a corner and another goes to give round a button each one holding out their hands the person who is in the corner has to look for the person who has the button but he can only look in three it is played indoor. (I am), King of the castle. Some person gets up on the ditch and says "I am the King of castle" and some other person runs over and pull him and then he gets up it is played by boys outdoor. Rotten Egg is played by girls outdoor a lot of girls gather together and take hands one girl goes out to the outside and walking round says I have a wee

stones before the person who has taken his shot has run around the triangle, reaches in it is nothing but if he gets in before it, it is a "rounder". If the person who is taking his shot hits the ball high and one in the outer side catches it that side comes and the other side goes out. The game called "cat and dog" is played very often at our school. The children are made into two sides like "rounders" and they toss up for which side is to be in first. Two sticks are got a short one and a long one. The short one being about six inches long is known as 'the cat'. The other called 'the dog' is about a foot and a half long, The cat is placed on a stone about six inches high. One person hits 'the cat' with 'the dog', and the cat flies out to the children in the outer side and they tries to catch it, and if they succeed they come in to the inside. If they do not catch 'the cat' the person who has taken his shot places 'the dog' beside the stone and one person in the outer side throws it in and if it hits 'the dog' that person is out. If they do not hit it the one who has taken his shot hits 'the cat' three time, and tries to get it as far away from the stone as he can. If he misses 'the cat' once he is out. After he has three shots taken he guesses how many feet away 'the cat' is from

Insummer the children play a lot of games. One called King of The Castle this is played in a height by one child calling herself King of the Castle while the others try to pull her down.
There is another one called Ring a Ring a Rosey a bottle a bottle a posie all the whiskey in the town couldn't knock me down There is a nother one called Here is the robbers coming through it is played by two forming an arch. it is supposed that they have two different things like one having an apple and the other an orange. they keep saying Here is the robbers coming through coming take the keys and lock her up, lock her up

Insummer the children play a lot of games. One called King of The Castle this is played in a height by one child calling herself King of the Castle while the others try to pull her down.
There is another one called Ring a Ring a Rosey a bottle a bottle a posie all the whiskey in the town couldn't knock me down There is a nother one called Here is the robbers coming through it is played by two forming an arch. it is supposed that they have two different things like one having an apple and the other an orange. they keep saying Here is the robbers coming through coming take the heys and lock her up lock her up

the greatest sheep raising district in Ireland, the losses in sheep through the Fluke disease, which broke?
Out at this time also contributed to the bad position of the big farmers. The potatoe crop failed which caused a partial famine in Connaught, which made it necessary for a relief committee to be formed in all parishes west of the Shannon, £100,000-£130,000 of which was contributed by America. In Loughrea parish alone over £8,000 was collected and distributid by Rev. Dr. Duggan for the relief of the distressed. This famine may be said to have produced the Land War. The people were unable to pay their rents and the landlords refusing to give any abatement began to evict them sometimes at the rate of twenty or thirty families per day. In April 1819, Michael Davitt, who had been out of prison since December 1877, started the Land agitation in Irishtown, County Mayo. In the following summer 1880 about sixty eight meetings were Held in the west of Ireland to further the cause the first great meeting in the County Galway was held at Loughrea on January 6 ad 1880. The secretary Fr Egan C.C and a lay committee organized it having been backed up by Dr. Duggan, whose whole heart was in the movement;

The Land War
From the old people in the districtThe first Shock Throughout Ireland during the ‘Eighties’ the names of Loughrea Ballinakill and Woodford were spoken of with pride by men whose hearts were with the oppressed. The tenant farmers within our shores in daily dread for the safety of their homes, saw in the Loughrea. Ballinakill and Woodford fights the making or marring of their fortunes. So when they looked for a lead and the men of those districts did not fail them. The struggle at Ballinakill between Sir. Henry Burke and his tenants decided the action of the Landlords, while that of Clanricarde in Woodford disclosed Landlordism at its worst; to this also, we can trace the “Plan of Campaign”, This was the tenants best means of defence. The Cause of the Land War. For two years immediately before 1879 the pieces of stock and farm produce had been declining owing to the increased importation of foreign meat and corn into England, and this fall particularly affected the big farmers in Ireland, as Galway was

To Connacht (the King’s Cantreds being reserved) to Richard de Burgo known as the Kingmaker- he, De Burgo, built the castles of Loch Riach in 1236. He now divided the Connacht feef on the barons of Leinster and Munster who had helped him to make good his assumption in Connacht.
These again divided in lesser fiefs. Each principal baron again required from his grantees castles commensurate with their lesser positions. The castle and manor of Loch Riach however, was the principal castle and manor of the province and on it depended the stability of the De Burge Lordship of Connacht. It was protected on one side by the Lake, on the other three sides a wall was built which was itself further defended by a trench and Natural river. Portion of the was may still be seen as well as the clais and river. There were four gates each defended by a strong tower of which towers one still remains. Athenry was also a walled town (1310) its defence being entrusted to Baron Bermingham. Galway was walled in 1270.

then she will go into the field or else return towards the shore, walking slowly so that the fisherman passes her but does not meet her face to face.
Fishermen never whistle while at sea. To do so is supposed to bring bad luck, or call up storms. Monsters of the deep called "worms" are supposed to be attracted by whistling. These worms and eels are themselves supposed to whistle. Fishermen do not like to go to sea in a curragh or boat if a pregnant woman happens to be a passenger. It was common in olden times (50-60 years ago for the women to go with the men cutting wrack or gathering shells for manure and many cases are told of narrow escapes from drowning through having a pregnant woman on board. When leaving the shore the skipper throws three drops of sea water on himself and crew and all make the Sign of the Cross. A little bottle of Holy Water is also carried by each craft. When going fishing for

for poteen-making and iron is placed in the still during distillation.
When people see the sidhe-ghaoth, little whirlwinds that occur very often during the harvest-time, they point a hayfork or other piece of iron at it. If they have no iron article they throw three wisps of straw or hay to the wind. Iron is used with the Saigeade for curing disease in cows. Iron stones are not used in buildings. The people like to bring a live fish into the house on New Year's Day. This ensures a supply of fish for the year. They will not divide or give away free the first fish they catch at any season. They will sell it however and do not mind how little they get for it as long as it is money. A two shilling piece because of its cross is the luckiest piece of money. This is the usual piece put into a baby's hand by visitors. Fishermen do not like to meet a woman on their way to the shore. If a woman happens to be on the road before

is passed over her back and under her belly and from head to tail. This is a protection against the fairies.
If a person spills milk he or she says "déine do mhairic" (Philomena Mc Andrews Belderrigmore a d'innis)The butter made on the milk of a newly calved cow is not taken outside the house even on a piece of bread. A coal is put under the churn when a churning has to be made. When the bid is put on, the Sign of the Cross is made above the churn. If a person comes into a house while a churning is being made he must strike three blows of the churndash on the milk before he leaves. Otherwise he will have all the butter off the churn. No coals or lights are allowed out of the house while butter is being made. If a man lights his pipe he cannot walk out with the pipe alight till the butter is made. A person entering a house during butter-making must say "Bail ó Dhia ar an obair" or "God bless the work." A man must milk a cow bearing her

people of the house put something red outside to ward off the evil eye. The idea is that anything red attracts the attention of gazers and so distracts the person liable to possess the Evil Eye.
When a cow calves people are careful not to give away the first of the biestings. They will not give away the first butter made from the milk of a newly-calved cow nor any of the buttermilk. Nobody will give away milk on May Day, but neighbours often try to milk another person's cow on that day. If they succeed they will have the neighbour's butter and milk for that year. The ropes tying our own cows were all cut and taken away one May morning about ten years ago. We found no change in the yield nor quality of the milk. Many cases are told though of cows losing their capability for butter production through no apparent cause. When a cow is milked the Sign of the Cross is marked on her side with the thumb dipped in the milk. After a cow calves a lighted coal

(7) Ardrath:
"Paircjeffers," "paircín Riordan," "Paircín Larry." "Pairca wáll." "Paire an tobair are the fields in Ardrath. The name of a stream is the "Sally Stream." There is a rock in Ardrath called the "Carraigin," and a bush called "The Piper's Bush." "Páircjeffers" because it was owned by a man named Jeffers. "Páircín Riordan" because Riordans lived there. "Páircín Larry" because it belonged to a man named Larry. "Páirc a Wall it belonged to a man called Wall. "Páirc an tobair" because there is a well in it. The "Piper's Bush" because a piper used to play under it. There is a stream called the "Wood Stream" because it is near the oak woods. Michael Lombard and Patrick Newton saw a ghost near the stream at midnight long ago. There are two other streams in Ardrath.

In the year eighteen sixty nine there was a terrible snow storm. The snow storm came unexpectedly and it lasted for a whole month. When it was deepest which was seventeen feet the forst set in so that a person could brng a horse and cast accross hedges and trees without knowing the difference between them and the level road. Though the roads were covered in snow they were as firm as a rock after the snow was frozen but nobody could go through the snow without "cogs" and places in which only old people lived was never opened because they could not venture outside the door or they would fall, perhaps breaking their backs. A man living where Gerrity is living now had no fuel for his fire and he could not go outside his own door because the snow I was eight feet above the door. Every day he would sit on a stool where the fire used to be and await his death patiently. One day a man called Terry "the Ské" was coming past the house and shovelled a path by which to get into the house and when he did get in he found the poor man almost dead with hunger. He brought him home with him and after giving him a good breakfast brought him with him to "Vencie" Smiths to clear snow. When he was in the field he lay behind a ditch

There was once a beautiful Co. Limerick girl. She was watched and finally kidnapped by an Irish landlord who lived in Tiernaboul, Mc Sweeney by name. He took it for granted she would be happy in his household as kidnapping was then the custom.
He got his servants to attend to her but all she wanted was her freedom. One night she escaped and in dire mental agony she took her own life. She hanged herself from a tree and on a flag beneath the tree she wrote the words which can be seen to-day. Mc Sweeney brought me from my place, may he like me meet due disgrace. Since then that tree is called the crooked tree as at every twist she gave when hanging the tree got crooked and it has remained crooked and bent since then. The bark became so gnarled and crooked that you could scarcely see it. It is known locally as "The crooked tree".

There was once a beautiful Co. Limerick girl. She was watched and finally kidnapped by an Irish landlord who lived in Tiernaboul, Mc Sweeney by name. He took it for granted she would be happy in his household as kidnapping was then the custom.
He got his servants to attend to her but all she wanted was her freedom. One night she escaped and in dire mental agony she took her own life. She hanged herself from a tree and on a flag(?) beneath the tree she wrote the words which can be seen to-day. Mc Sweeney brought me from my place, may he like me meet due disgrace. Since then that tree is called the crooked tree as at every twist she gave when hanging the tree got crooked and it has remained crooked and bent since then. The bark became so gnarled and crooked that you could scarcely see it. It is known locally as "The crooked tree".

When the dog eats grass rain is not far distant. The cat is also supposed to foretell rain by jumping high into the air to catch flies or midges. On summer evenings if midges bite and annoy people unduly, they say that there will be a "bad break" in the weather. The presence on the roads or in the meadows of another winged pest - the flying ant - is also regarded as an omen of approaching rain.
If blackbirds cackle in a discordant way instead of indulging in their full throated melody, it is commonly looked upon as an indication of frost in the air. Another sign of frost is a straight column of smoke rising from the chimney. When older people complain of pains in their bones rain is expected to follow. Many old people locally can tell with remarkable accuracy when the east wind is about to begin blowing, even though they may be bed-ridden, or confined, through the feebleness of old age to the chimney corner. "I always get an awful dart of a pain in my hip when that uald black east wind is coming" was an observation made by an old neighbour of mine. Incidentally, the east wind is looked upon, by old people especially, as a "bad wind" - a carrier of all kinds of ailments and "badness" generally.

struck the animal three times - and wished! In the twinkling of an eye the landlord was changed into a deer!
With wild cries the hounds gave chase and the poor deer in full gallop before them. At last when he was nearly dead and about to give in, he managed to get into the forge. "For God's sake" said he to the Smith "Save me and I'll never again ask you to leave Ballynoe. I'll eign? a deed this minute leaving you and your descendants there forever". The Smith took pity on him, struck the animal again and the deer became the landlord again, God bless and save us! The spell cast over one by the smith was broken at the setting of the sun but you see the poor Landlord couldn't hope to get a lease of his life from the hounds until that time!

Then the people buy a horse or a cow or any other animal at a fair and met any body they say good luck to the animal and may it do well and the other man says the same to your self and good luck to you.
The farmer when he is bying a horse or cow he sayes it is a bargen and if the man says it is the both men clappes their hands three times and say good luck. In olden times there was a fair held over in tray field. This field belongs to Patrick McGee. It was held every half year. There was a fair in the districk went to it and staid all sunday and when night came they had a dance called the nights dance for the visting people that come to the fair.

Then the people buy a horse or a cow or any other animal at a fair and met any body they say good luck to the animal and may it do well and the other man says the same to your self and good luck to you.
The farmer when he is bying a horse or cow he sayes it is a bargen and if the man says it is the both men clappes their hands three times and say good luck. In olden times there was a fair held over in tray field. This field belongs to Patrick McGee. It was held every half year. There was a fair in the districk went to it and staid all sunday and when night came they had a dance called the nights dance for the visting people that come to the fair.

"O Morty Oge you were the first
To cross this Sassanach hound accurs'd You with your gallant comrades four Have left him dying in his gore And the bubbling on that yonder swell Is his spirit trying to escape from hell", The bubbling is still to be seen on the edge of the water.

Long ago when Morty Oge was smuggling the goods into Ireland the English government accused Puxley of not minding his job as he was payed to watch the coast for smugglers and Morty Oge was continually smuggling goods into the country. So Puxley wanted to prove his zeal at the job and he went north to Cualac and shot Morty Oge's aged Uncle in Mortys absence. When Morty found this out he said he would avenge his Uncles death. So one night he rode across the hill with four comrades. They left their horses in Finaha and came down to Dunboy and hid in an old forge near the Castle lodge. When Puxley was riding out of the lodge the next morning Morty challenged him to a duel but he would not fight so Morty shot him just then an old woman named Maire Ní Shuilleabhain came on the scene and when she say Puxley dying on the water's edge she composed the following poem.

Q. On which side of the mug is the handle? A. The outside
Q. How many feet has forty sheep a shepherd and his dog. A. Two. Because the sheep and dog have only paws. Q. What are the three things that can't be found? A. A boot to fit the foot of the mountain, a sheet to cover the bed of the ocean, and a towel to wipe the face of the earth. Q. As I was goen to the fair of Athy I met ten men. Each man had a wife, each wife had a cat, each cat had a kitten, how many was goen to the fair? A. One. Myself. Q. Riddle me riddle me ram me o, me father gave me some seed to sow. When the seed began to grow like a garden full of snow, when the snow began to melt like a shepherd in his pelt, when the ship began to sail like a bird without a tail, when the bird began to fly like an an eagle in the sky, when the sky began to fall. Lord have mercy on us all. Me father sent me for the lend of the loan of the himmick the hammick the seven stone maddick, through a reall, through a rock, through an old spinnen wheel, through a hairy horse's shin bone and the divil a such a riddle as that was ever known.

England" men who cared naught but to eat, drink, grow fat and rich and die" many priest were imprisoned and put to death.
Stuarts Parliment - The increasing power of Par[liament] made it difficult for the King to assert his will hence we find the S. Kings fighting with Par. But the Par. in turn destroyed itself when Dictator O. Cromwell took up reins of Government. The Irish hoped for great things from James I son of Mary Queen of Scots and one of Celtic blood, but that blood was growing thin. The Gunpowder Act staged by Cecils of England set James against Catholics. 2 acts applied to Munster, Leinster, and Connaught in 1606, 1614, 1623. Acts were issued ordering all priests to lieve country. The aged Bishop of Derry Dr. O Devanny together with a priests were put to death. Plantation 1608. The Protestant Church was amply provided for with large tracts of land. Trinity College (1593) got 96,000 acres. Parliment succeeded in getting a Protestant majority. Charles I married Catholic princess Prot. held churches of Waterford, Cork, Kilkenny, Wexford and Limerick. Charles was held down by Parliament and thought Prot. a convenient form of Religion. Discoveries and Graces Charles in need of money 120,000 given. Graces promised these were to allow Lawyers to plead in the Courts without taking the oath of Supremacy and make good titles lands which were considered bad or doubtful. The graces were never sanctioned instead proclamation issued. Mass and popish rites abolished. Religion houses closed. Saint

England" men who cared naught but to eat, drink, grow fat and rich and die" many priest were imprisoned and put to death.
Stuarts Parliment - The increasing power of Par[liament] made it difficult for the King to assert his will hence we find the S. Kings fighting with Par. But the Par. in turn destroyed itself when Dictator O. Cromwell took up reins of Government. The Irish hoped for great things from James I son of Mary Queen of Scots and one of Celtic blood, but that blood was growing thin. The Gunpowder Act staged by Cecils of England set James against Catholics. 2 acts applied to Munster, Leinster, and Connaught in 1606, 1614, 1623. Acts were issued ordering all priests to lieve country. The aged Bishop of Derry Dr. O Devanny together with a priests were put to death. Plantation 1608. The Protestant Church was amply provided for with large tracts of land. Trinity Collge (1593) got 96,000 acres. Parliment succeeded in getting a Protestant majority. Charles I married Catholic princess Prot. held churches of Waterford, Cork, Kilkenny, Wexford and Limerick. Charles was held down by Parliament and thought Prot. a convenient form of Religion. Discoveries and Graces Charles in need of money 120,000 given. Graces promised these were to allow Lawyers to plead in the Courts without taking the oath of Supremacy and make good titles lands which were considered bad or doubtful. The graces were never sanctioned instead proclamation issued. Mass and popish rites abolished. Religion houses closed. Saint

Change in Religion - reigns of Edward VI Éilis I Henry VIII. Henry VIII by breaking with the pope, confiscating the monasteries imposing the "Act of Supremacy" and demanding of Clerics before ordination - "to renounce, refuse, religious and forsake the Bishop of Rome and his authority, power and jurisdiction" had prepared the way for Protestantism - a complete doctrinal change came with Éilis (1) rejection of the Mass (2) the doctrine of Real presence (3) reduction of the Sacraments to two-Baptisms and Blessed Eucharist to attend Catholic worship meant death with confiscation of property. With Faith and land destroyed the nation became a "living ". Men such a Enex, Mountjoy, Morris, Perrott, Clifford, Boonewall, Bagenal, Coote and Broghill tried to s establish a reputation in enterminating the Irish.
Protestantism meant hatred of Religion and an appetite for property. Those who were sent over to start the new Religion "were men who would never have been tolerated in

Tulla Hill = One may see the four big battle fields of Co. Galway
"Pleasure Garden"= The ladies who lived in the palace played in the garden. Barn field = Gap field. Quarry field = Stone quarry. Earlspark = Called after four Earls, Eider, Costa, Riach and Caireall. Table field = A flat stone with a Chalice cut out in it. Rocky field = Big rocks. Flaggy field = It is usually covered with wild flaggers. The Riasc = Swampy field. The fort field = Contains an old fort. Briclough = Pond of the trout. Cosmona = Foot of the meadow. Cossorrig = Foot of the rock. The lios field = Fort field. lios-a-púca = Fairy fort. The Devils bit = Hill in Aille parish with a huge bite taken out of it. Mount Pleasant = Build on a beautiful mount

little ventilation, still the old people got very good health, and lived to a very old age.
The houses of long ago were not like the houses of these days. They were built of "Cré bhuidhe" and scraws. They first dug the foundation for the house, and then put down the scraws which they dog in a field, then they made the "Cré buide" into a paste and put it between the scraws, when the house was built they put long sticks up in the shape of a roof and then thatched it with rushes or straw. The houses consisted of two rooms. A kitchen and a bedroom. Other houses were make of long boards and a flat roof, the roof was also made of boards. But the houses made of "Cré bhuidhe," and scraws were the warmest. Thatched Houses There were wooden beams put on top before the thatch, there were then smaller beams crossing them and there were thick scraws placed over them, and then the thatch, either, of straw or rushes was put on, and it was fastened firmly on with thin hazel reeds, specifically cut for it, and they are calls "scallops." The roof is thatched freshly every year. The old houses had

paper. First they get a lot of pieces of galatine. First they get a lot of pieces of galatine and fold them till they are about a quarter of an inch, then they put each one into another until it is long enough. They put a buckle in the front to fasten it.
They girls make dolls out of hairpins an thread. First they get two hairpins they twist some thread round the top of the first hairpin this makes the legs and body and then they-make a hand out of rags then the sew the two hairpins to the head then the get four beads and they put one at the end of each leg and hand. They make dolls out of candlegrease the melt the candle and they made a head and a body and two hands, then they stick them all together, and two matches for legs. Cribs: The boys make cribs out of sally rods they make the bottom of it ten inches square and they bring it in very narrow at the top by tying all the rods. They have to keep the sticks close so they the beds can't come out. They make a bow and put it on a stick so that when the birds hop on the bows it will fall and catch them. They also make marbels out of candle grease and they made horses out of melted soap.

There was many old heroes in the district Philip céad bó was living in brócán. He had a hundred cows. He used to steal alot of and cattle from the English and when the poor people would get up in the morning they would find two or three fat sheep outside the door. He was very good to the poor. Bill Connor of Castleisland was a famous weight thrower he could throw the half hundred with his one hand. He was also a great weight lifter. Tom Reidy Knock-nagoshel was a great runner. He could run eight miles an hour.
Michael Kane Knockbrack was a famous jumper over six feet high. Jack Connell Knocknagoshel was a great mower. He got up one morning very early and he went out without his breakfast and he mowed two acres of hay. There was a man going along the road and he asked him was he going to the sports in Tralee and he said he would if he had the hay mowed for his brecfast and he went to the sports.

Many heroes were known in the past around this parish. They were good runners, jumpers, weight-throwers mowers and lifters. Donoghue from Mount Eagle was a famous runner in the Penal Laws. He stayed in a little hut between the hills and one day he was chased from Mount Eagle to the river Blackwater in Cork. Men, horses and hounds were on all sides of him except the East. He climbed the high mountains in a hurry and ran as hard as he could towards the Blackwater and the blood hounds were chasing madly after. After a long battle he reached the Blackwater and jumped it. It was about twenty-five feet in breadth and the hounds could not pursue him then. There was a woman on the opposite bank spreading clothes on a line. "That was a good jump," she said to him. "But you did not see the run I had to it, Mam" said Donoghue and ran off. He was also noted for his courage. One day he crouched down behind the ditch when an English general was coming along riding on one of the quickest horse that could be got, and Donoghue thought if he cut the two hind legs off the mare he would be safe. There was a stream near by and the horse started

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There was a terrible storm of wind in 1903. It was in the month of February. The wind first blew from the south but it kept on changing until it was blowing from the north-west. It blew down Jim Doyle's House of Ballyhoman, Askeaton, co. Limerick. It also knocked up one of the big poplar trees in front of Doyle’s. Doyle's house belongs to James Nolan at present.2. There was a terrible frost in 1918. It lasted for seven weeks. There was a gale from the east along with the frost. It killed nearly all the birds in the county. It was of hunger they died. The frost rotted potatoes, mangolds, turnips and other vegetables.

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then she will go into the field or else return towards the shore, walking slowly so that the fisherman passes her but does not meet her face to face. Fishermen never whistle while at sea. To do so is supposed to bring bad luck, or call up storms. Monsters of the deep called "worms" are supposed to be attracted by whistling. These worms and eels are themselves supposed to whistle. Fishermen do not like to go to sea in a curragh or boat if a pregnant woman happens to be a passenger. It was common in olden times (50-60 years ago for the women to go with the men cutting wrack or gathering shells for manure and many cases are told of narrow escapes from drowning through having a pregnant woman on board. When leaving the shore the skipper throws three drops of sea water on himself and crew and all make the Sign of the Cross. A little bottle of Holy Water is also carried by each craft. When going fishing for

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"The Local Roads." In olden times the roads were not like the roads to day. The old roads were very narrow, and they ran in a straight line and every one of them goes near the river. There is an old road which leads from 'Barr na Fola' (to) and joins the main road at a level part of the river called 'Ath na nEach'. This road was made hundreds of hears ago. 'Ath na nEach' is so called because it was the only level part of the river that a horse and cart could go across. There is another road going from Dunmanway to Bantry. This road was made first to the ceamery and then it was made to our school. It was made from (the) the school to Bantry before that time. The road from Dunmanway to the school was made sixty-six, years ago. There is another old road going from Dunmanway to Bantry too. It is not known when this road was made but it was made over a hundred years ago. Another road starts at the Castle cross

tonight I will have a pony in a stable and two men minding him and if he is not able to steal him I will shut(?) him. So the father went home + told him and he set (him) away with two bottles of whiskey and the same night they were minding a sow and he knew that one of them would be out in a minute or two. So he lid (?) down beside the sow and one of them came out so when he saw him lying there beside the sow he smelt the whiskey and he ran out and told the other fellow and they ran out + brought him in and they took the bottle of whiskey out of his pocket and in half an hour they were fast asleep from the whiskey. He took the pony home to the gentleman and he said he would try him to-night himself and if he was not able to steal the sheet out of the bed he would shoot him. So he brought an old man who was dead out of the Chapel and put him up to his window and the gentleman fired at him and knocked him. Then his wife said that it would not be fair to leave him there, so he got up + took him down to the........continued on page 277

instead of the wheel. The girls tie the doll on the board and wheel it along. The pastime is only for small girls.
Small girls also string daisies on a thread to make necklaces. When playing shoping the girls make rush baskets, for taking to the shop. The boys spend their spare time in snaring rabbits. The rabbits are snared in the Winter. The snared are made from fine wire made into a loop, so that when the rabbit puts its head into it, the loop will clasp round its neck. This is not much harm. Setting gashes for snipes was a great pastime for boys in olden times. The gashes are made from long horse hairs out of a horse tail. In each gash there is about ten horse hairs. The hairs are knotted at each end and twisted like a rope. Each gash is made like a snare. It takes about four gashes tied across on a cord over a small stream. The boys made it their custom to look their gashes everyday. Boys sometimes made elder guns from the elder tree. They also made rod cages for catching. This was done when the snow was on the ground. It was no harm if they did not kill the birds. Boys also made kites and wind mills in windy weather. The kite is made from stiff paste board, in the shape of a diamond. A long fine cord is

"Home Made Toys" Long ago the children made more home made toys than they do now. These home made toys were good pastime.
Some of these toys were only made at certain times of the year, other can be made at any time. The old people of the house can sometimes teach the children how to make simple toys by which they in their young days amused themselves. One very simple toy for either boy or girl is a "Spinning Jennie." It is made from a spool on which thread was kept. From one toy spool two toys can be made. The spool is cut in the centre with a slope, and a pointed stick put down the hold. This can spin on the smooth talle until you could not see it moving. When the corn is shooting the children can make whistles. By pulling the top of the green stem, and cutting a little opening down each side. When you blow down this it whistles. The girls often made dolls and dressed them very nicely. They then make a car for putting the doll on. This home made car can be made from a board and a round tin lid from a box, nailed at front of the board. This does

the money has to pay luck. The luck is paid according to the money given for the animal. If a horse was sold, ten shillings would be paid back for luck. For a cow half a crown is the luck and about sixpence for a young pig. This is called lucks penny.
When a man gets lucks penny when he buys an animal he spits on it before putting it in his pocket. This is for luck. When two men are making a bargain they clap hands to show they will do what they say. When cattle are being marked two clips of hair are cut off their back near the tail. The rope that is on the beast is kept by the seller when the beast is sold. There is a special fair for selling rams a Carndonagh. There are two fairs held Buncrana one is called the Gooseberry fair and the other the Apple fair. But this is only the name given to them because those fruits are plentiful at that time of year. About twenty years ago there was a fair held in the village of Muff, but it is discontinued now. The reason why this happened was because enough people did not gather to buy or sell.

call Master Mc Grath"?
Lord Lorgan stepped forward and said "Gentlemen is there any among you have money to spend". The nobles of England they don't give a haw 3000 to one bet on Master Mc Grath. Mc Grath he looked up and he wagged his old tail saying your Lordship I know what you mean. I know says Mc Grath there are wild hills and boys but yet in old Ireland there are good men and dogs. The hare was let off in the beautiful view as swift as the winds o'er the green hills she flew Rose took the first turn according to law the second was given by Master Mc Grath. He jumped on her back and held up his paw saying "three cheers for old Ireland and Master Mc Grath".

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me ‘that’ without a K. A = That. R (16) What sort of fruit is on the top of every page in a book. A = Date. R (17) Useful useless instrument from once it’s bought it’s never lent but those who buy it, its not their own but them that get it, it carries them home. A = A Coffin. R (18) Why is a promise like wine. A Because it improves by being kept. R (19) What is it that goes round the wood and round the wood and never goes into the wood. A = The bark of a tree. R (20) Where did Noah strike the first nail in the ark. A = On the head. R (21) What is it that a man can put into his right arm and into his left. A = His left elbow. R (22) What’s the difference between a blind man and a sailor in prison A = One cannot see to go and the other cannot go to sea. R (23) When did Moses sleep five in a bed.

heart did quake the tree did shake to see the whole the fox did make.
A= A girl going to meet her false lover. R (8) As I sat on my hemy jimmy jamum I saw pinkam stealing away companion I swore & if I had my ransom scamson scarum I’d shoot pinkam for stealing away companion. A = A fox stealing a goose. R (9) What keeps one eye always open. A A Needle R (10) Black and white and read all over. A = A paper. R (11) It’s in the dale’s, it’s in the vale’s, it’s in the valley’s too, although it’s not in Ireland its in a horses shoe. A = S R (12) The full of a roomfull and you could’nt get a spoonful. A = Smoke R (13) I have a little red cow in the byre and I neither can catch her or tie her A = A flea R (14) What’s brought to the table, cut and never eaten. A = A pack of card’s R (15) London-Derry, Cork and Kerry spell

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Years are but moments multiplied. If you fail try again. The darkest hour is before the dawn. Where there is a will there is a way. If never says yes. If you’ll believe all you’ll hear, you’ll eat all you’ll see. If always carries a long tail. She is worth her weight in gold. A green old age unconscious of decay. Procastination is the thief of time. Not dead but gone before. A weak invention of the enemy. Whatever is, is not, is the maxim of the anarchist. To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserv peace. A crust of bread-and liberty. The end must justify the means. Hail fellow well met. A penny for your thoughts. Robbing Paul to pay Peter. The sight of you is good for sore eyes. There are none so blind as they that won’t see. She pays him in his own coin. She watches him as a cat would watch a mouse. A fellow makes one wondrous kind. Immodest words admit of no defence For want of decency is want of sence. The kettle can’t call the pot black. Halfpenny and thimbles makes a tailor’s pocket jingle. It is better to be alone than to be in the midst of bad company Much covets more. Puss in gloves catches no mice. A rolling stone gathers no moss. Early to bed and early to rise. Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

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Old Proverbs Bad workmen grumble at their tools. After a storm comes a calm, or After the rain the sunshine. Better late than never. More hase, less speed. Seeing is believing. Look before you leap. Never say die A stitch in time saves nine. Rob Peter to Pay Paul. You should never despair while there’s meat on the shin of a wren. What is bred in the marrow can’t be got out of the bone. Put a beggar on horseback and it is’nt his feet that will be sore. Slow and sure wins the race. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. Sense bought is better than sense taught. Small leaks sink great ships. Prevention is better than cure. It is late to repent when all is spent. Those that hide find. The world would’nt make a race horse out of an ass. The early bird catches the worm. Tell a lie if the truth will not match. The burnt child dreads the fire. Union is strength. Learning is better than silver or gold. You cannot put an old head on young shoulders. The sooner the better. The more the merrier. The younger the chicken the sweeter the picking. It is not the day of the hunt I am learning to ride. Let every man praise the bridge he crosses.

Riddles
I have a goose she is worth a prize. The man that would get her would want to be wise. She goes far from her lodgings but still she comes home. She has feet on her body but walks upon none Answer:- ship.When I was running a thing I found. For that thing I searched all round. If I could find it I would throw it away but when I didn't I kept it all day Answer:- A thorn As green as grass but grass it is not. As white as snow but snow it is not. As Red as blood but blood it is not. As black as soot but soot it is not. What is that. Answer:- A Blackberry A sheep went out on a gap. A hundred more came after, the shepherd and his dog. How many feet was that. Answer:- Two I know a man that can make shoes without leather, four elements mixed together, fire, water, earth, and air, and every customer buys two pair. Answer:- A Blacksmith.

high cliff and they were not very rich. The boy went to school regulary for after some years he meant to be a Preist. When he had enough education he had to go to Spain to College. When he was leaving he told his mother to leave a stone in certain place for every Sunday she went to Mass. She told him that if she could help it sta(?) she would not stay at home. So every Sunday she would go to Mass and when she would come home she would not forget to leave the stone
Years passed and the student did not pay a visit home. But it was all the same for she did not forget to go to Mass and to leave the stone. One day to her surprise he came home and after he got his tea he asked her where the stones she had left. She brought him to the place outside the house and he blew his breath over them. Every stone flew away but three. Then she told him that they were three Sundays she had been late.

Irish Quarter of garden which was sixty spades. 8 pence per day was the usual wage without PERCUS and when wage rose to 1/- men thought it was a wonderful pay. Five shillings per week for the digging of potatoes and a shilling per day for moving was the average. There was always one man specially selected to lead the others in the work so as to draw them on. This man got perhaps a half glass of whiskey from the farmer and in return dragged on the other men
There was no plough in those days-all spade work. Many a man, the real spailpín, worked for the week and spent all their earnings often on Saturday night. I discovered that I was related to these two brothers (Dennehy) through my maternal grandfather Darby Dennehy- and then we discussed Darby (from whom I take my name although I am fifth son of the family (see page 97 on naming the child). I remember Darby who died suddenly at the age of 98 (in 1912). Darby in his youth was a spailpin and it was said of him that on his journey "down the country" that he on one occasion jumped twenty times forward

Scéal Grinn John Mornan and Pat Murphy were two neighbour men. They had a quarrel one time. Pat Murphy was a member of a secret society, so he gathered his men on John Mornan one night. They pulled him out of bed and bound his two hands together, put him on a horse's back and brought him away to the wild mountains of Connemara. His enemies had a barrel with them to the mountain. They put John Mornan into the barrel on the highest peak of the mountain. They put a small amount of bread and water into the barrel. They nailed the lid on the barrel, then they had an air-hole made in the side of the barrel and

hands on any day at all you would have and luck. It is also unlucky to let your prayerbook or glove fall.
To get married in the month of May asi (?) or whitewash a house in that month is very unlucky. If a cock crowed at night there is going to be a death next morning. To put on our the back to front, or if you met a man coming in through the door and you coming out it is a sign of good luck. If a strange cat came into the dwelling house there is going to be an accident in the house. A sure sign of a stranger coming is foretold when a robin enters a house, or if the tea-leaves came to the top of your tea you shall get money from a strange woman. When you cut your hair on the last day of every month it will grow quicker.

was owned by a woman named Peggy. The other fields I know are called bun reamhar, an pháirc mhór, the well field, páirc a' teora, the fort field, Jacks field, and páirc an glaise. An pháirc mhór is so called because it is a large field. The well field is so called because there is a well in it. Jacks field is so called because it was owned by a man named Jack. Páirc a' teora is so called because it is on one side of a large boundary ditch seperating two farms. There is a stream flowing near a certain field. That field is called páirc an glaise. A field owned by Daniel O Sullivan is called the plum field because plum trees are growing in it. A field near Maurice Breens house is called páirc an chluiche because long ago men were seen playing there at night.

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Balfour and Lord Randolph Churchill were names and faces (from cartoons) very familiar to me when I was four years old. One day a stranger entered our house. He was small with a very short lumpy cocked nose. Do you know my name he asked. Lor Randy, I promptly replied. I do not think he felt flattered.When the political prisoners (Parnell and his party) were led out of prison. All houses were ordered by the Land Leaguers to illuminate. The order was promptly obeyed. Heads of the leaders in pictures were attached to long poles and these protruded from upper story windows. Whenever the police passed there were three war cries: Three cheers for Parnell. Boo for Balfour and Harvey Duff. The meaning of the last can be found in most Irish Histories of the period.
At the Parnell split the village politicians split also. But there was no bitterness in any marked scale. The anti-Parnellite candidate, however, Sir Thomas Asmond, defeated Ned Harrington - on of the 'Bantry Band' and editor of the Kerry Sentinel which was the popular local paper. The local paper favoured by the Protestants was The Kerry Post. Up to 1989, that is as long as the old Grand Jury System lasted any position carrying with it a salary was held by Protestants. A Catholic doctor has been elected for the district a few years before this. There was no Protestant candidate. 10.1.1939

Once in every mountain, once in every moon.
It is twice in Summer and it is not in June. Answer: M - As I looked out on, the lake, I saw a boat with ten men in it. When I looked again there was not a single man in it. What became of them? Answer: They were all married - When you give it food, it will live and when you give it a drink it will die Answer: fire - Three brothers passed the church one day, one said I will go in and say a prayer for my niece and the other said, I will go in and say a prayer for my nephew and the other said I will go in and say a prayer, I have neither niece nor nephew what relation was he. Answer: He was their father - I have a little house it wouldn't hold a mouse and it has more windows than the Lord's house Answer: A thimble - The room full, the kitchen full and wouldn't hold a spoonful

Once in every mountain, once in every moon.
It is twice in Summer and it is not in June. Answer: M - As I looked out on, the lake, I saw a boat with ten men in it. When I looked again there was not a single man in it. What became of them? Answer: They were all married - When you give it food, it will live and when you give it a drink it will die Answer: fire - Three brothers passed the church one day, one said I will go in and say a prayer for my niece and the other said, I will go in and say a prayer for my nephew and the other said I will go in and say a prayer, I have neither niece nor nephew what relation was he. Answer: He was their father - I have a little house it wouldn't hold a mouse and it has more windows than the Lord's house Answer: A thimble - The room full, the kitchen full and wouldn't hold a spoonful

In 1903.
I.A.A.A. Championships. - High, 5 ft. 10 ins. Maryboro'. - High jump, 5 ft. 8 ins long jump 22 ft 6 ins. Ireland v. Scotland. - High jump, 5 ft 10 ins Killmallock - High jump 6 ft. 1 in. Glasgow Celtic. - High jump, 5 ft 11 ins. G.A.A. Championship - High jump 6 ft. 2 1/2 ins. Kilkenny - High jump 5 ft. 9 1/2 ins. Presentation College (Cork) - High jump, 5 ft. 11 ins. ; long jump 22 ft. 9 ins.In 1904 I.A.A.A. Championships - High jump, 5 ft. 7 1/2 ins.; Long jump, 22 ft. 9 1/2 ins Galway (R.I.C.) - High jump, 6 ft. 2 1/2 ins. Clonmel (R.I.C.) - High jump 5 ft. 10 1/2 ins. Banteer - Hop, step and jump, 48 ft Ballsbridge (R.I.C.) - High jump, 5 ft 11 1/2 ins. Ireland v. Scotland - High jump 6 ft 1 in G.A.A. Championships - High jump 6 ft, 1 in hop, step, and jump, 49 ft. 2 3/4 ins. D.M.P. - High jump, 6 ft. 0 1/2 ins.

"Rhymes for the Wren."
The wren the wren the King of all birds. St. Stephen's day he was caught in the furze. Up with the kettle, and down with the pan. A penny or two to bury the wren. The wren the wren, he is the King. The eagle says he is no such thing. A bunch of holly by his side. And the Gullane boys to be his guide Up with the kettle, and down with the pan. A penny or two to bury the wren. Jerr Gleeson. Tooreennamult, Gneevgullia Co. Kerry

The games I play are Tig, Hide-and-go-Seek, Blind Man's Buff, Tip the Finger, Snakes and Ladders, Draughts, Ludo, Hide the Button, Two Jolly Welshmen, Forfeits, Follow my Mother to market, Cards, Who lost the handkerchief? In and out the windows, Ball, Colours, Steps, Hop-Scotch, Four Corners Clock, Paddy and the Loaves, Pots of Jam and Ring Board and Rings. In Spring I skip and in the Autumn I gather Blackberries. In Winter I play indoor games such as Draughts and Table Tennis.
Hide-and-go-seek is played in this way. A crowd of children stand in a row and are counted by another child. Whatever child "Twenty" falls on is called the seeker. The seeker goes into a corner and does not look round while the others hide. When they are hidden

Dan, Dan, Thread the needle. The ghost in the cabbage. I have a wee bird in my pocket. Jack Stones. Hide and seek. Hound and hare, Todloms. There comes an old woman from Sandy Lane. The child in the fire. Tom fool in the middle. Blind man's buff. The hawk and the chickens. Skipping. Follow my mother to market. The fat chicken. Ring the dish cloth.
Churn the buttermilk. Donkey. Horses. Fishing, football, handball, marbles. Frog jumping. No Ghost

121 Why didn't you catch it when it was flying
And not when t was dying? 122 You're not as green as you're calling cabbage looking. 123 It's hard to get wool from a goat, 124 You cant whistle and chew meal at the same time. 125 Strife is better than lonliness. 126 Dont judge the book by the cover. 127 What the monkey sees, the monkey wants. 128 You're like a hen on a hot griddle. 129 They're packed together like sardines in a tin. 130 What's got easy, is spent easy. 131 It's a long lane that has no turning. 132 The longest way round is the shortest way home 133 Better to burst, than to let good meat go to loss. 134 Ill got - ill gone, like the old woman's bonnet. (This old lady was travelling in a train when she discovered a bonnet which had been left there. She put it on, and stuck her head out of the window, when

There is a holy well in the parish of Donaghmoyne and it is called ''Tobar Lasra'' which means the well of light. It is in a meadow, the property of Thomas Hill. It is there a very long time and how it came there was that when St Patrick was teaching in Donaghmoyne he was baptising a man in this meadow and he had no water. St Patrick stuck his staff down deep in the group and immediately water sprang up and formed a well and it is there since. It was along a fence and the protestant man of the neighbourhood washed a little dog in it and it moved a distance of some yards out in the meadow. The tie for the pilgrimage to this well is the first sun day of may and the first Sunday of August and a large number of people go to it for it is said that there are cures in it. If you wash your face in the

Tobar Lasra
There is a holy well in the parish of Donaghmoyne and it is called ''Tobar Lasra'' which means the well of light. It is in a meadow, the property of Thomas Hill. It is there a very long time and how it came there was that when St Patrick was teaching in Donaghmoyne he was baptising a man in this meadow and he had no water. St Patrick stuck his staff down deep in the group and immediately water sprang up and formed a well and it is there since. It was along a fence and the protestant man of the neighbourhood washed a little dog in it and it moved a distance of some yards out in the meadow. The tie for the pilgrimage to this well is the first sun day of may and the first Sunday of August and a large number of people go to it for it is said that there are cures in it. If you wash your face in the

July 8th 1938
Holy Wells (Peter Smyth).There is a holy well in Descart. There is one supposed to be in a glen in Corlick. The one in Descart is in a big rock in James Clery's field. It is supposed to cure rheumatism. It is not used nowadays. The rock fell into the well and covered it over. People have gone to find out where it is, but they could not find it. People do not know much about the well in Corlick, but they say that it was St. Macarten found a well there long ago. He was supposed to pray there for three days. The people say that there is three bushes round a low place in the glen of Corlick

and that the well is between them trees. The old people say it cures boils and other diseases like that. People used to go to it for cures. The sick people had to bathe in the well for to be cured.
Johnny McCabe, Corbyfin, was cured from four boils on his neck and face when he was eight years of age.He minds his mother and father taking him and bathing him in the well. Three days after there wasn't a trace of a boil on him. [I got that from Johnny McCabe,73, Corbyfin, and I got some of it from James Kierans, 70, Corlick. He heard his grandfather, Patrick, talking about that well. He was ninety years when he died]

July 8th 1938
Holy Wells (Peter Smyth).There is a holy well in Descart. There is one supposed to be in a glen in Corlick. The one in Descart is in a big rock in James Clery's field. It is supposed to cure rheumatism. It is not used nowadays. The rock fell into the well and covered it over. People have gone to find out where it is, but they could not find it. People do not know much about the well in Corlick, but they say that it was St. Macarten found a well there long ago. He was supposed to pray there for three days. The people say that there is three bushes round a low place in the glen of Corlick

Our Holy Wells
In the townland of Annykilly about two miles from Clones there is a holy well, in Mr. Knight's land. It is called St. John's well. The well is only a little puddle but of late it has been and fixed around it. There is a large bush beside it lying on the ground and one side bears fruit each year. The folklore concerning this well is the virtue of its water. If rubbed on the fore-head of a person who has a head-ache it will cure it. Many people were cured one of whom is Mrs Murphy, Wood Bine Cottage, Clones. She heard of the well and on getting the water and applying it was cured. Many stories are told about this well. Once the owner of the farm in which the well is situated - Mrs Moore - sent his men cut the bush at the well. When they began to cut it, it began to bleed and the men went home. Mr. Moore became very angry and on arriving home found his horse dead.

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Holy Wells (Peter Smyth).There is a holy well in Descart. There is one supposed to be in a glen in Corlick. The one in Descart is in a big rock in James Clery's field. It is supposed to cure rheumatism. It is not used nowadays. The rock fell into the well and covered it over. People have gone to find out where it is, but they could not find it. People do not know much about the well in Corlick, but they say that it was St. Macarten found a well there long ago. He was supposed to pray there for three days. The people say that there is three bushes round a low place in the glen of Corlick

The children make five or six squares on a flag or on a level piece of ground and they get a flat stone or a small piece of slate and one child will go first and throw the stone in the first square and if the stone touches the line you are put our of the game and if you leave your foot on the ground you will be put out of the game also. Then the child that does the game once will get an other chance and they continue on playing.

... when she was a girl
Pop goes the weasel 9/11/38 My mother used to play this game when she was a little girl. Twelve children held hands and stood in a ring, and one stood in the middle. The one in the middle said one word of this rhyme on each child. A penny for a cotton ball, A half-penny for a needle. That is the way my money goes. And pop goes the [the] weasel. The girl that the last word was one, would have to take the other child's place, and go in the middle. Then she repeated the same rhyme and so on till the end.

My mother used to play this game when she was a little girl. Twelve children held hands and stood in a ring, and one stood in the middle. The one in the middle said one word of this rhyme on each child.
A penny for a cotton ball, A half-penny for a needle. That is the way my money goes. And pop goes the weasel. The girl that the last word was one, would have to take the other child's place, and go in the middle. Then she repeated the same rhyme and so on till the end.

The game is played in the following manner. Aoo the girls go down on their knees and they put down there [their] heads. One girl goes round as Santa Claus and the girls in the ring say "who goes round my fine storey house" and the girl or Santa Claus says "no one but Santa Claus", the girls in the ring say take care would you take any of my fine fat chickens. Then Santa Claus says "no but this little weeny, weeny, one" and he picks out one and he goes round and the ones he picks out will follow him and so on until they all are up. The last one then is Santa Claus again.

This is the way she folds her arms, This is the way she claps her hands, And this is the way she dances.
Wall flowers is thus played. All the girls catch hands and go round in a ring saying Wall flowers, Wall flowers, growing up so high. We shall have the measels or we shall never die, except Brigid she is the very one she can dance and sing and turn her back to ours. The way Tis unlucky is played is one girl stays in the corner and the rest hide. Then she goes to look for the rest, and if she sees any of them she say Tis unlucky. If they do not get into the den before her they are caught. The ghost in the well is thus played. One girl sits down in the corner and the rest fo in turn and ask for a gallon of water. When they go back they say there is a ghost in the well.

March 1st, 1938
The Games I Play I play many different games with my schoolmates, namely:- Trance, Hopscotch, Hide and go seek, Tisket a Tasket, Witch, Colours, Four Corner Fool, Ring a Rosy, Dan Dan thread the needle, High Gates, Joining Up, tip, The Church is Made of Marble Stone, Skipping and Green Gravel. When playing Tisket a Tasket we all join up in a big ring and run around. One girl goes outside the ring with a handkerchief in her hand. She runs around in a ring tipping each one on the back saying:- "Tisket a tasket, a green yellow basket, I dropped it once, I dropped it twice, I dropped it three times over, over, over until at length she drops it on someone of them. The one she drops it on must follow her in and out through the ring until

March 1st, 1938
The Games I Play I play many different games with my schoolmates, namely:- Trance, Hopscotch, Hide and go seek, Tisket a Tasket, Witch, Colours, Four Corner Fool, Ring a Rosy, Dan Dan thread the needle, High Gates, Joining Up, tip, The Church is Made of Marble Stone, Skipping and Green Gravel. When playing Tishet a Tasket we all join up in a big ring and run around. One girl goes outside the ring with a handkerchief in her hand. She runs around in a ring tipping each one on the back saying:- "Tisket a tasket, a green yellow basket, I dropped it once, I dropped it twice, I dropped it three times over, over, over until at length she drops it on someone of them. The one she drops it on must follow her in and out through the ring until

have a race to the den. If the seeker reached the den before the hider, that hider would have to seek next.
Draw a Barrel of Water Four are needed to play Draw a Barrel of Water. Two would catch both hands together. The other two would do the same crossing the other pair of hands. Each person would go in between the pairs of hands and start jumping. The Fox and the Chickens One child would go as mother of all the chickens, another would go as fox. The fox would try to get the chickens and the mother would do her utmost to save them by running between them and the fox. The Ghost at the Well One child would go to the well as ghost. Another would be mother of the other children. The mother would send the children for water. The ghost would frighten them. The mother would come and hunt the ghost to kill him. Hunt Hunt is a very common game. One person would hunt the rest and try to catch them. Nuts in May or English and Irish Soldiers All the children are arranged in two rows. The same number in each row. The leader in each row would try to

If, when the child has ten counted, she turns round and finds the others moving, they must go back to the place where they started, and the game continues until one of them is able to go up and touch the back of the child at the wall before she has ten counted and then they change places:-14. Gost in the garden - One tell the rest of the children to go for something such as sweets or something like that. They are to say there is a gost in the garden then they are to get candles and go again the gost is to catch them all:-
15. Blind man's buff - put a blind on one and let him catch someone else and who ever he catches is to the blind man then 16. Old Rodger's - one is to be old Rodger's and lie down on the ground the other's are to catch in a ring and

stones came up to his throat and he said "what rumbles and tumbles against my poor bones its not the little kiddies but its only big stones." So he started to drink again and he fell in and was drowned.
Long ago two men lived in the same district. Each of them had a hump on his back. There was a lios in the locality and one of them was walking round it one Saturday evening when he heard grand music and someone singing a song. This is what it was Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. They said it that way for a couple of times and the humpy man outside added Saturday to their song. The boss inside sent out one of his little men to see who was adding to their song. The little man went in and told him that it was a little humpy man. He told him to go out and bring in the hump and hang it on the wall so that man went home delighted without his hump. The next week he met with the other humpy man he asked him how did he get rid of his hump and he told him. So he said he would go the next Sunday night and he would add Sunday to their song.

Amadán na Brúine. Comnuigheann sé leis na sidóga ins an mbruigheann. Fear an chliste. Glich seadh é ach leigeann sé ar féin gur amadán a bhí ann. Bhí fear d'arbh ainm Diarmuid ag dul thart go deirennach le Cnoc Meadha oidhche amháin. Cuala sé ná sidheóga ag rádh rhyme Dia Luain Dia Máirt is Dia Chéadaoin. Chuala Diarmuid a bhí taobh amuigh é seo agus dubairt sé "Dia Luain, Dia Máirt Dia Céadaoin is Diardaoine. Cuala na sideóga é agus dubhairt siad "cé cuir an píosa le n-ár rhyme." Tugadar Diarmuid isteach agus diarradar de cé a dhéanamh

Amadán na Brúine. Comnuigheann sé leis na sidóga ins an mbruigheann. Fear an chliste. Glich seadh é ach leigeann sé ar féin gur amadán a bhí ann. Bhí fear d'arbh ainm Diarmuid ag dul thart go deirennach le Cnoc Meadha oidhche amháin. Cuala sé ná sidheóga ag rádh rhyme Dia Luain Dia Máirt is Dia Chéadaoin. Chuala Diarmuid a bhí taobh amuigh é seo agus dubairt sé "Dia Luain, Dia Máirt Dia Céadaoin is Diardaoine. Cuala na sideóga é agus dubhairt siad "cé cuir an píosa le n-ár rhyme." Tugadar Diarmuid isteach agus diarradar de cé a dhénamh

invited him in and gave him a good time. When he was going home they took off the hump of him. When he went home they were surprised. It happened that there was another man and he had a hump on his back, he was the only man in the locality. He went to those two men, and they told him how they got rid of their humps. He went to the fort. And he heard them talking the same Irish and they didn't want to be interupted in their Irish. The Irish they were speaking was "Dia Lúain, Dia Máirt, Dia Ceadaoin, Dia Daoin" agus "Dia hAoine" said the man with the hump.
The woman came out and carried him in and talk of a beating he got! When they were letting him home. They gave him the two humps that they took off the two men, and then he had three humps

Fairies.
There was a man there long ago who had a hump on his back. He went out one day, a long distance from the house. And late in the evening as he was passing a fort, he heard the people inside. They were speaking Irish, and the Irish they were speaking was, they were trying to name the days in the week. They were only able to name "Dia Lúain, Dia Máirt" and the man outside said "Dia Céadaoin." And the woman heard him inside. She came out and carried him into the fort, and gave him a good time, and they having (?) him out they took the hump off his back. When he went home they were astonished, and it went around the locality until it came to this man, he had a hump also. He came to this man that got rid of his hump and he told him the story and he went to the fort, he stood in the front of the fort. And he heard them saying Dia Lúain, Dia Máirt, agus Dia Céadaoin. And he named 'Dia Daoin'. The woman came out and

The funniest story I ever heard locally is about a man who lived near Askeaton. The man had a hump and had a habit of going to town every night.
On his way home he had to pass by a large fort. One night the man was passing the fort and he heard fairies singing, "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday'. The man heard before that, that if you pleased the fairies they would grant you what you would ask of them , so he roared out "Saturday" when they had finished singing. This pleased the fairies very much so they took in the man and asked him what he would like. The man told them that he

d'ólaidís é. Oidhche áirighthe nuair a bhíodar ar meisge do sgaradh ón a chéile iad. Do thárla gur casadh na púcaí ar dhuine acu agus thosnuigh sé ag seinnt ceóil. Bhí na pucaí ag seinnt Dé Domhnaigh agus Dé Luain. Bhí an duine seo ana ghlic agus do seinn sé Dé Domhnaig Dé Luain agus Dé Máirt.
Do lean sé ag seinnt ar feadh na h-oidhche, an rud céadhna igcómhnuídhe. Ar a 12 a clog nó mar sin d'fhiafruigheadar de an mór an págh a bhí á lorg aige. Dubhairt sé ná raibh aon págh uaidh. Bhíodar ana buidheach de agus thógadar an drún de. Cúpla lá na dhiaidh san do casadh an bheirt dreabthar ar a chéile. Is ar éigin aithnigheadar a chéile. D'innis an duine gur baineadh an drún de don duine eile gach rud a thuit amach do. Dubhairt an duine eile go rachadh sé féin ag triall ar na púcaí. Chómh maith do chuaidh sé ag triall ortha.

Bhí fear ann fadó agus bhí cruit air. Chuaidh sé ar an aonach go Tuaim agus dhíol sé bó. D'ól sé uisge beatha ar an mbaile mór nuair a bhí an bó díolta aige.
Nuair a bí sé ag teacht abhaile bí sé ar meisce. Nuair tháinig sé in aice le cnoc Máighe ar a bhealach abhaile chonnaic sé solas ins an gcnoc agus druid sé in aice leis. Chuala sé na sidheóga a canadh agus ag damhsadh agus an port a bhí acu " Dia Luain,Dia Máirt, Dia Luain, Dia Máirt, Dia Luain, Dia Máirt." Bhí guth maith aige.

to pick her out from her other two sisters & that no man could do it as there was no odds between them, and that when the man failed the King used to get him killed. She said that the three would be standing together with three pigeons in their hands and that she would move her pigeon from one hand to another and when he would see that to say to the King that she was the youngest daughter.
So the next day he came back to the palace and demanded the youngest daughter off the King. The King brought them out and they were as much alike as three eggs. The boy watched them and he saw the girl moving the pigeon and he picked her out as the youngest. So the King said he was right and they were married. On the young man's 21st birthday himself and his wife were out hunting in a wood & the white woman ran up to the young man and said - "you are mine & you'll have to come with me now." The man put up his gun and shot the

boy said, "Whang, tie him, and stick, do the work!" and the whang tied him up and the stick beat him to death.
The next day the boy went out to herd again, and he went into the orchard to get some more apples and a terrible giant with three heads and fire coming out of his mouth came out and said, "You killed my two brothers and I'm going to kill you now." But the boy said, "Whang, tie him, and stick, do the work!" and the whang tied him and the stick beat him to death. The boy came home and the next day he went to herd again. He went into the orchard to get some more apples but no giants came to fight him, and he knew he'd had them all killed. So he started off and went into the giants' palace, and there was an old hag of a woman sitting in the corner and the boy knew it was the giants' mother. She said, "You killed my three sons and I'm going to kill you now." But the boy said, "Whang, tie her, and stick, do the work!" and the whang tied her up and the stick beat her to death.

was a palace near the farmer's place and there lived three terrible giants in it. If the farmer's cattle ever strayed into their garden they used to kill the herd. The farmer did not tell the boy this as he was afraid the boy wouldn't stay if he knew.
So the boy went out to herd the cattle and he saw a beautiful orchard at the giant's palace. He stole into the orchard to get some apples and went up on a tree. While he was up on the tree the cattle strayed into the giant's garden and began to eat. A great big giant came out and saw the boy in the tree. He told the boy that he was going to kill and eat him for letting the cattle stray, so the boy said, "Whang til him, and stick do the work," so the whang tied up the giant and the stick beat him to death. The next day the boy went out to herd and he went into the orchard to get some more apples. While he was there the cattle strayed and a giant with two heads came out and said, "You killed my brother yesterday, and I'm going to kill you now!" But the

of the rocks but in the end the little bull killed the king's bull and the boy got his bag of gold.
They then went to another king's place and this king had another great fighting bull. The boy challenged the king's bull and the little bull killed the king's bull and the boy got his weight in gold. They then went on to another king's palace and this king had another great fighting bull and the boy challenged the king's bull and they fought and the little bull killed the king's bull and the boy got a chest full of gold. So they started off again and they didn't go far till the little bull said that he was going to die after all he fought. He told the boy to kill him and skin him and that under his skin he would get a stick and a whang. So the boy killed the bull and under his skin he got the stick and the whang and he took them with him on his travells. The boy started off and came to a farmer's place and the farmer engaged him to herd his cattle. There

Once upon a time there was a stepmother and she was very cruel to her stepson. She hardly ever gave him anything to eat, and every day she sent him out to herd cattle. This day he was very hungry and he asked her for something to eat but she gave him an awful berating and sent him out to herd the cattle. The boy went out to the field to herd the cattle and sat down and began to cry. There was a little bull in the field and he came up to the boy and asked him what he was crying for. The boy said that the stepmother had sent him out and gave him nothing to eat, and that he was very hungry. The bull said, "Don't worry about that, I'll get plenty for you to eat. Any time you are hungry, all you have to do is to put your hand into my left year [sic] and take out a piece of white cloth you will find there and spread it on the ground and you will find in it all the food and drink you require."
So the boy put his hand into the bull's left year and he got a white cloth

and when he spread it on the ground he found on it food and drink fit for a king.
Every day after, the stepmother sent out the boy without anything to eat, and every day he took the cloth out of the bull's ear and eat and drank his fill. After a good while the stemother began to wonder for the boy was improving instead of failing. So she went to the henwife and told her how she was starving her stepson and instead of failing he was getting fatter. So the henwife said he must be getting food somewhere, and to put up a hut near where he was herding and that she would watch him from it. So the hut was put up and the henwife stayed in it and saw the boy taking the cloth out of the bull's ear and eating and drinking off it. So she went back and told the stepmother that she found out that it was the bull that was feeding the boy. The stepmother said that the bull would have to be killed and she sent for the butcher to come to kill him the next day. The bull

knew he was going to be killed and that day he said to the boy, "Tomorrow they are going to kill me as the butcher is coming. They will bring me into the yard and let you be there. When the butcher draws out to hit me, I will rip him open with my horns and when you see this, let you jump on my back and I will bring you away safe."
The next day the boy was ordered to drive the little bull into the yard to have him killed. He drove him in and just when the butcher was about to hit him, the bull attacked him and ripped him open. The boy jumped on his back and the bull went off like the wind and never stopped till he came to a king's palace. This king had a great fighting bull and the little bull sent up the boy to say that the little bull would fight and kill the big bull. When the king saw the little bull he laughed and said if he was able to fight his bull he'd give the boy a bag of gold. So the two bulls fought and they fought so hard that they knocked water out

and when he spread it on the ground he found on it food and drink fir for a king.
Every day after, the stepmother sent out the boy without anything to eat, and every day he took the cloth out of the bull's ear and eat and drank his fill. After a good while the stemother began to wonder for the boy was improving instead of failing. So she went to the henwife and told her how she was starving her stepson and instead of failing he was getting fatter. So the henwife said he must be getting food somewhere, and to put up a hut near where he was herding and that she would watch him from it. So the hut was put up and the henwife stayed in it and saw the boy taking the cloth out of the bull's ear and eating and drinking off it. So she went back and told the stepmother that she found out that it was the bull that was feeding the boy. The stepmother said that the bull would have to be killed and she sent for the butcher to come to kill him the next day. The bull

Once upon a time there was a stepmother and she was very cruel to her stepson. She hardly ever gave him anything to eat, and every day she sent him out to herd cattle. This day he was very hungry and he asked her for something to eat but she gave him an awful berating and sent him out to herd the cattle. The boy went out to the field to herd the cattle and sat down and began to cry. There was a little bull in the field and he came up to the boy and asked him what he was crying for. The boy siad that the stepmother had sent him out and gave him nothing to eat, and that he was very hungry. The bull said, "Don't worry about that, I'll get plenty for you to eat. Any time you are hungry, all you have to do is to put your hand into my left year [sic] and take out a piece of white cloth you will find there and spread it on the ground and you will find in it all the food and drink you require."
So the boy put his hand into the bull's left year and he got a white cloth

was brought before the executioner to be put death The executioner said to the "Black Theif of Sloane" if you are able to tell me did you ever see a man as near death as this man I will let him free. The "Black Theif of Sloane" said he did. One time I was as near death myself as there was one time I was walking through a wood and I saw three witches counting a bag of money. The witches fell asleep I stole the money from them and ran up a tree with it. When the witches came out and one of them turned into an axe and another into a saw and the other into a hatchet and the tree was then one brink of falling with the cock crew and away they flew. That man is free said the exceutor. The second son came along and says the executioner

and said, I didn't think that there were any rabbits about here. He then let out the second rabbit. The men watched the second rabbit and then the boy let out the third rabbit and the man said, "We'll follow this rabbit to see where they are going to." When the boy got the men following the rabbits, he stole into the field, cut the horses harness with a knife and stole the two horses out of the field and brought them to the rich man's house.The rich man said it was very good but that he'd give him another task to do which was much harder to steal his horse out of the stable, and a man in the saddle and a man each side of the door with a gun. The father said no one could as that task but he went home and told his son and the son said; "That's all night, I'll do that easily."
So the boy went away and got two quarts of whiskey and dressed up like an old woman and came to the rich man's place. He went over to the "dunkle" (dunghill) outside the

So he looked around the room and he saw a bullock skin hanging on the wall, so he took the skin and got into it and began to go around the room pucking doors and walls. The king awoke with the noise and went down to see what it was all about. When he heard the noise and pucking in the room he thought it was the devil, so he ordered his servants to open all the doors of the palace to let the devil out. When all the doors were opened the boy charged out and galloped as fast as he could to a wood that was near by. When he came to the wood he saw a light in it so he charged up to where the light was, and who was it but the two rogues counting all the money and precious things that they got from the palace. When they saw the fierce bull they began to shout and roar and said:- "It's the devil after us for killing the young boy." So they fled leaving all the gold and precious things behind them, and

Once upon a time there was a labouring man working with a very rich farmer. The labouring man's son used to accompany his father to the rich farmer's place every day to work. Now this son was a terrible rogue and he used to have to steal everything he laid his eyes on. The farmer discovered that there were many things being stolen and he told the labouring man's son that he would have to get away from the house. So the boy said to himself that he would go to seek his fortune. The father asked him what he'd like to be and he said - "since I am a rogue I'm as well toe be a good one" so I'll go away and learn to be a real rogue"So the next day he started off to learn to be a rogue. He didn't go far till he met two men, and they asked him where he was going. He said he was going to learn to be a rogue. So they said:- "Come with us and we will learn you for

Once upon a time there was a labouring man working with a very rich farmer. The labouring man's son used to accompany his father to the rich farmer's place every day to work. Now this son was a terrible rogue and he used to have to steal everything he laid his eyes on. The farmer discovered that there were many things being stolen and he told the labouring man's son that he would have to get away from the house. So the boy said to himself that he would go to seek his fortune. The father asked him what he'd like to be and he he said - "since I am a rogue I'm as well toe be a good one" so I'll go away and learn to be a real rogue"So the next day he started off to learn to be a rogue. He didn't go far till he met two men, and they asked him where he was going. He said he was going to learn to be a rogue. So they said:- "Come with us and we will learn you for

After some time they arrived at the king's palace and found out the stable where the Steed of Bells was kept.
The Black Thief told them to go very quietly afraid the horse would find them, for if he did he'd ring the bells on his back, and the king would catch them and put them to death. When they came near the stable the steed heard them and rattled the bells on his back and the noise of them was so great that they could be heard miles and miles away. The bells ringing wakened all in the palace and the king's guards turned out and caught the four robbers and brought them before the king. The king told them that he was going to kill them one after another and that the eldest of the three sons would be killed first. So the king ordered his cook to put down a good fire and put a pot of water on it till he'd kill and boil the eldest son. So the fire was put down and the pot was put on and the king took a big sharp knife and caught the eldest boy and was about to cut off his head. Just when he was

Once upon a time there lived a man and he had three sons. His wife died and he married again The stepmother hated the three sons and she was always setting them impossible tasks. This time she set them a task and it was to steal "The Steed of Bells." Now the "Steed of Bells" was a famous horse that a king owned and no matter how quietly you stole into his stable, the steed always shook himself and the bells rang and the king heard and caught the horse thief. The three sons started off anyway and they hadn't gone very far till they met the greatest thief in the world, the Black Thief of Sloan. The black thief asked them where they were going, and they said they were going to steal the Steed of Bells. The Black Thief said it was no use in them going, that he was trying for the last seven years to steal the Steed of Bells, and that he couldn't. He said that he would go with them anyway. So the four of them started off to steal the Steed of Bells.

it was she was there the whole night. When the dress was woven the woman could not cut the cloth, so she went back to the man's real wife and said she'd give her another night with the man if she'd lend her a wonderful scissors she had. She lent the scissors and got the night with the man, but he was in a sound sleep and couldn't hear her talking.
The woman cut out her dress but she couldn't get any needle to sew it, so she went to the woman again and said she'd give her a third night with the man if she'd lend her needle to sew the dress. The woman agreed but that day she was talking to a friend of the man's so she told him to tell the man not to take any drink that his wife would offer him at night. That night his wife brought him up a drink and he let on he was drinking it, but when he got her back turned he emptied it out. The other woman came in then and she told him all about the Glass Hill and he knew she was his real wife so the two slipped out the window and went home and lived happy after.

three boys" So he did and gave them the chime of bells. They went home happy and when the queen saw them coming she fell down off the castle and broke her neck.

out of his pocket and threw it and said, - "Catch on to him and hold him, magic ring!" The ring flew like a bird and lit on my toe, and I couldn't run. Then the giant called out "Where are you now, magic ring?" and the ring cried out, "I'm on his toe oh giant!" "Well, hold on till I come to you," said the giant and he came running to the spot where I stood. Just as he was coming to me, I stooped down and cut off my toe and threw it as far as I could. When I threw it the giant stopped and cried out, "Where are you now oh magic ring?" And the ring cried out, "I'm on his toe, oh giant." "Well, hold on till I come to you, oh ring!" said the giant and at that moment he turned and ran towards the lake, and he ran so fast that he ran in and was drowned. Now wasn't that near to death?" The king said it was and he was so pleased with the Black Thief's stories that he let them all go, and when they were going he gave them the Steed of Bells. They took the steed and came home and lived happy ever afterwards.

it before him. He smelled it and eat it and when he had done he said, "I don't know what was wrong with that pie, but it didn't half fill me, so he began sharpening his knife. When he was ready he went down to the room, and began searching among the bodies for the fattest backside. When he came to me he said, "Ha! Ha! here is a fine fresh soft backside." So he took his knife and cut off my backside. The pain was terrible but I couldn't cry. He went up and fried it and eat it and then he said, "Ha! Ha! that was fine stuff and now I'm not a bit hungry." So he went off to bed and fell fast asleep. When he was asleep, the woman came down and bandaged me up and I got up. This giant had only one eye in the middle of his forehead. I got a pan full of boiling oil and went up to where he was sleeping and poured the boiling gravy into his one eye. The giant roared and leaped up and I ran for my life. He ran here and there after me but he couldn't catch me as he couldn't see. When he thought I was getting away he took a magic ring

that he did, and that he was nearer to death himself. So the king said if he'd tell the story he'd set the third son free. So the Black Thief told the following story.
Once in my travells I was going through a forest and at daybreak I saw a house and I went into it. In the corner there was an old hag of a woman nursing a child. When I went in she said :- "Ah what brought you here. This is a giant's house and he will kill and eat you. I have to cook this little child for his breakfast and he'll have you for his dinner." So I said that it would be a pity to kill the little child and that I'd go out and get a swine instead and that they'd make a pie for the giant out of the swine. The woman said that the giant would know the smell and I said to cut off the child's finger and put it in the pie. So she did so and hid the child. When she had the pie ready she heard the giant coming so she brought me up to a room. There was a lot of dead bodies in the room so she took off my clothes and made me lie down among the bodies. When he came he asked for his pie and the woman left

he would let him off too. So the Black Thief told the following story.
Once I was on my travells and at night I went into a kiln to rest and sleep. I wasn't long there till there came in three fairies and they had a bag of gold and they began to count it. When they had it counted they left it aside and lay down to sleep. When I got them asleep I stole the money out of the bag and put in turf mould instead. I ran out and as I was going the fairies heard me and followed me. I ran up on a bush and two of the fairies stood watching me while the third went away to make a hatchet. When he had the hatchet made, he came back and began to cut the tree. The tree was just creaking and ready to fall when the cocks crew and the fairies had to go, and wasn't that as near to death as any man could be. The King said it was surely nearer to death and he'd let the second son go. The next day preparations were made to kill the third son and when the king had the knife to his throat he asked the black thief if he ever saw a man nearer to death, and the black thief said

I turned to look and there was two soldiers with guns levelled at me. I heard them say "There's the Black Thief of Sloan and we will kill him." As quick as lightning I lifted the corpse and put it in front of me, and just at that moment the soldiers fired and it was the dead man they hit. I fell with the dead man still in front of me and the soldiers said:- "Well that is the end of the Black Thief of Sloan and we will let him lie there." When they were gone I stole from behind the dead man and took the bag of gold and jewels and went off with myself and wasn't that as near death as any man could be.
The King said it was surely nearer to death and he would let go the eldest boy. The next day preparations were made to kill the second son and just when the King was going to cut off his head he asked the Black Thief if he ever saw a man nearer to death and the Black Thief said that he did, that he was oftener nearer to it himself. The King said if he could tell a story showing that he was nearer to death than the second son

about to cut off the son's head the king said to the Black Thief - "Did you ever in all your life see a man nearer to death?"
The Black Thief said that he often saw a man much nearer to death and that he was oftener nearer to death himself. So the king said if the Black Thief would tell him the story of the time he was nearer to death and if it happened that he was, he would release the eldest son. So the Black Thief told the king the following story: Once there was a very rich man and he had a lot of gold and jewels. When he was dying, he ordered that all his gold and jewels should be buried in the grave with him. I heard of the gold and jewels being buried so I started off to steal them. Just as I was going up to the grave I met a man coming down from the grave carrying a heavy bag. I saw that the grave was open, so I knew that he had stolen the gold and jewels. I put up my gun and shot him dead. I ran to where he was and was just lifting the bag of gold and jewels when I heard a noise.

After some time they arrived at the king's palace and found out the stable where the Steed of Bells was kept. The Black Thief told them to go very quietly, afraid the horse would find them, for if he did he'd ring the bells on his back, and the king would catch them and put them to death. When they came near the stable the steed heard them and rattled the bells on his back and the noise of them was so great that they could be heard miles and miles away. The bells ringing wakened all in the palace and the king's guards turned out and caught the four robbers and brought them before the king. The king told them that he was going to kill them one after another and that the eldest of the three sons would be killed first. So the king ordered his cook to put down a good fire and put a pot of water on it till he'd kill and boil the eldest son. So the fire was put down and the pot was put on and the king took a big sharp knife and caught the eldest boy and was about to cut off his head. Just when he was

Once upon a time there lived a man and he had three sons. His wife died and he married again The stepmother hated the three sons and she was always setting them impossible tasks. This time she set them a task and it was to steal "The Steed of Bells." Now the "Steed of Bells" was a famous horse that a king owned and no matter how quietly you stole into his stable, the steed always shook himself and the bells rang and the king heard and caught the horse thief. The three sons started off anyway and they hadn't gone very far till they met the greatest thief in the world, the Black Thief of Sloan. The black thief asked them where they were going, and they said they were going to steal the Steed of Bells. The Black Thief said it was not use in them going, that he was trying for the last seven years to steal the Steed of Bells, and that he couldn't. He said that he would go with them anyway. So the four of them started off to steal the Steed of Bells.

had to get a candle when he was feeding the horses. One night when he was walking the road. He saw something shining on the road. He picked it up and found it was a rib of hair. He put it in a little box for several weeks and they wondered why he didn’t need a light for feeding the horses. This night his master stole out on him and he found that he had a light of his own. He asked him where he found it and he told him he found it on the road. His master told him that it was a rib of hair of the queen of the lonely valley. Well my man, said the master you are a lucky man. Next day he said to his master I will go home to see my father and brothers. He started off on the journey. He got home after a few days but when he got there there was no home. The palace was not there and all that was there was the walls knocked and nettles growing inside. He walked around the place and could see nobody. He went on to the park at the back of the house. He saw their twelve mares that had twelve foals. He walked down the park and met there an old mare that was thin and hungry looking. Well said the mare would you do me a good turn. Well said the boy what do you want. Will you kill the twelve foals and give me the milk and help me to go through the hard winter. Very well said the lad I am going for a year and I will see you when I come back. He came back in a year and found the mare and foals in the same field. He walked down the field and he met

He gave the apples to his father and they near killed him. The other brothers then gave him their apples and he drest himself and got up. Next day they threw the boy that had the bad apples out in the kennel and let the dogs eat him but he had the wand and he struck the dogs with it and killed them but the next day the woman whom he had stolen the whiskey, the butter and the loaf from came to the boy's father and asked him where was the boy and he said they had thrown him into the kennel and the dogs had killed him. "Well dead or not of him" said the woman "get him for me" so they went out in the kennel and the boy was there and he eating loaves and everything and she brought him and married him and they lived happy, for the rest of their lives

When they arrived there the boy got the apples and put them into his pocket. Then he went about looking at the castles. He got a loaf that no matter how much you would eat of it, it would remain the same size. Then he got a pound of butter and it would never get small. Then he got a bottle of whiskey no matter how much you would drink of it it wouldn't get empty. Then the eagle brought him back again and he gave one of each to three sisters. then one of them gave him a wand. She told him that if he saw any beggars at the crossroads not to give them anything or if he would fall asleep. When he came to the crossroads. there was one beggar there. The boy hit a stone with his wand and it changed into a loaf. Then he fell asleep and his brothers came and took the apples from his pockets and put their own into it. Then they went home. He then woke and went home

half his kingdom and his four treasures; his hawk to catch game as it flew, his hound to catch game on the ground, his setter to show where the bird was when he wished to hunt it himself, and his beautiful horse to carry him to the hunting.
Grace being now a king himself became very fond of hunting but there was one hare he never could overtake. It always disappeared into a certain enchanted rath and he saw it no more, until he found himself hunting it some other day. At length he took courage and followed the hare into the cave of the rath and from then on neither he or his hawk, hound, setter or horse were ever seen again. Angus the king's son had often made inquiries about his friend and was delighted to hear how he had won a kingdom for himself. The next news was that he had disappeared into the enchanted cave never to return. So Angus left his father, the king and taking with him a fleet courser, dogs and hawks, he journeyed night and day until he came to Grace's kingdom and there he lay in wait for the magic hare. After many ordinary hares had been hunted and killed he at length hit on the right one and hunted it very often but with great care.

At Our Lord's time all the animals and birds and insects were able to talk as well as a person. So when the Jews were searching for Him they met a cricket and a wasp on the road; and they asked them if they saw Our Lord passing. As it happened He was only just after passing and the wasp said "Indiú Indiú" meaning that he passed that day. The cricket anyway did not want Him to be caught and it said "Indé Indé" meaning that he passed yesterday and at the same time trying to put the Jews off the track. On that account

the crucifixion, they found the they had forgotten the nails. Without losing any time they sent a messenger to the village smith asking him to make the nails. The smith refused and said he would have no hand, act or part in the crucifixion. The messenger came away downhearted. On the way he met a crowd of tinkers and told them his trouble. Don't worry said one of them. I'll make the nails. The tinker made the nails but from that day out it was misfortune after misfortune for the tinker, who had to wander the roads with the sky for a roof. The blacksmith had good luck for refusing to make the nails and that good luck is still with him.

1. The seven fold love of the mother for her sonIt is said that the mother loves her son seven times more than he loves her. The reason of that is that Our Lord said, when on the cross to his Mother "Mo ghrádh thú a mháthair" and she is supposed to have said in answer "Mo sheacht grádh thú a mhic" From that time forward all mothers love their sons seven times as much as their sons love them.
Na Tinncéirí an dream is mí-ádhamhla amuigh The old people always say that the tinkers are the most unlucky in the world. When the Jews had all ready for

Travelling people named Donovans call around here at certain times of the year. They call around to the people's homes selling articles and looking for food to eat. They are very rich but pretend to be very poor. The articles they sell are tin-cans, buckets, china, small statues, laces, tie pins, safety pins and all sorts of brushes. They buy the articles in shops in Dublin at very cheap prices and sell them to the people at very big prices.
The people do not like to see them coming as they are great pests. When you give them one thing, they want another thing. They stay in Brien's lane. They get food from the people. They sleep in Caravans. They travel in batches. They come around for the patrons of the Grallagh and Palmerstown too. A friend of theirs died about twelve years ago and left them alot of money. An old man comes from Dublin at certain times of the year playing a bagpipe and all the people are very glad to hear him.

named Bruton who lived in Eirke near a cross roads yet known as Bruton's cross. He had a hump on his back. One evening he went to the rath in Tooles and he heard a song being sung inside. It now thus: "Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, begorr". They kept singing this over and over- At last he said "Saturday, begor". He heard the "good people" saying "bring in that man, he put a fine addition to our song. The little people brought Bruton into a grand place- parlours and lovely rooms and they took the hump off him, and he came out as straight as a 'rush'.
Later on a fellow from some other district had heard of Bruton being relieved of his hump by the "good people" and he came to be shown to Toole's Rath. Bruton told him the story. He went to the rath on a summer's evening and waited till he heard the song. He noticed that the fairies had included Bruton's line "Saturday, begor", in their song. He shouted "And Sunday, begor". He heard them saying "Bring in that man

He has our song spoiled". They dragged him in and put Bruton's hump on top of his own. He came out with a double hump.Told to Timothy Maher, Graigue, by Michael Holohan, of Kyle, who is dead now upwards of 80 years. He is supposed to have known Bruton.
7.12.'37 Timothy Maher, Graigue, Rathdowney, Leix Aged 65 years, living in district all his life.

He has our song spoiled". They dragged him in and put Bruton's hump on top of his own. He came out with a double hump.

and said, I didn't think that there were any rabbits about here. He then let out the second rabbit. The men watches the second rabbit and then the boy let out the third rabbit and the man said, "We'll follow this rabbit to see where they are going to." When the boy got the men following the rabbits, he stole into the field, cut the horses harness with a knife and stole the two horses out of the field and brought them to the rich man's house.The rich man said it was very good but that he'd give him another task to do which was much harder to steal his horse out of the stable, and a man in the saddle and a man each side of the door with a gun. The father said no one could as that task but he went home and told his son and the son said; "That's all night, I'll do that easily."
So the boy went away and got two quarts of whiskey and dressed up like an old woman and came to the rich man's place. He went over to the "dunkle" (dunghill) outside the

So he looked around the room and he saw a bullock skin hanging on the wall, so he took a skin and got into it and began to go around the room pucking doors and walls. The king awoke with the noise and went down to see what it was all about. When he heard the noise and pucking in the room he thought it was the devil, so he ordered his servants to open all the doors of the palace to let the devil out. When all the doors were opened the boy charged out and galloped as fast as he could to a wood that was near by. When he came to the wood he saw a light in it so he charged up to where the light was, and who was it but the two rogues counting all the money and precious things that they got from the palace. When they saw the fierce bull they began to shout and roar and said:- "It's the devil after us for killing the young boy." So they fled leaving all the gold and precious things behind them, and

and dancing and eating and drinking and the fairy men were passing in and out among the crowd and nobody saw them. At last the bridal dance was called and the groomsman and bride and the groom and bridesmaid got out to dance. Dun Binne got busy then and when the bride was passing by where he was he threw a wisp at her and she sneezed, and nobody said "God bless us." When she was swinging round again he threw another wisp at her, and she sneezed and still nobody said "God bless us." When she was swinging round the third time, Dun Binne threw a third wisp at her and she sneezed again. James was above on the collar tie and he lost his temper and shouted "D--n yis for a pack of fools, can none of yis say 'God bless us'!" The words were no sooner out of his mouth than the whole house collapsed and James found himself lying outside the fort on Sunnaghmore Hill.

but he wouldn't take anything from them.
Dun Binne then said that they were going to a wedding of a girl named Mary Monaghan of Combe and that he was going to take the bride away. He said that if he could get her to sneeze three times while she was dancing the bridal dance, that he could take her away. James McKiernan knew the girl very well but he told the fairies that she wasn't being married for another month. Dun Binne laughed and said, "Don't you know that you are a month here with us already" He said also that he'd bring James to prove to him that the wedding was going on that very night. So they all got their horses and they went like the wind for Mary Monaghan's of Combe. Before they went in, Dun Binne told them that they could go anyplace they liked in the house for nobody could see them. So James McKiernan to get a good view jumped up and sat crosslegged on the collar tie. The wedding was going on and there was great fun

the same old mare and she was as thin and as hungry looking as the year before. Will you kill the foals and give me the milk she said. Well said the lad I gave you the milk last year and you are as bad this year as you were last year. But as you asked me I will do it. He killed the foals and gave her the milk and went away for the same holiday as the time before. He came back in a year’s time and found the same thing as usual. The old mare was as thin and as hungry as ever. So she said will you do the same thing this year. Well said the lad I gave you the milk last year and the year before and you are just as bad as the year I met you. You are as hungry and as thin as ever. Well said the mare its hard enough for me, but if you give me the milk this year I would be better. Go up to the old stable and you will find an old saddle and bridle. He went and got them and put them on the old mare. Now said she get up on my back now she said you have to be a good jock. Come along and I will get a stick for you. They went along and jumped the first wall and got a stick. Now said she we have these animals to meet. The first is a wild boar and the second is a mad bull and the third is a stallion. I am supposed to fight them First of all I will meet the boar and if you hit him with the rod I gave you he will fall dead. They met the boar and the boy did what he was told. They went

until 8 o clock the following morning.
Again she got lodgings and welcome and before leaving in the morning she got the usual lunch together with soap, on which was stuck a needle and thread "Take that with you" said the woman "You might want it and do not lose it." He then brought her to a high mountain and said "You will see me no more, go home and on your way get lodgings in the same houses in my name." She did as he bade and retraced her steps lamenting. Undaunted however she employed carpenters to make ladders with the aid of which she could climb the mountain. The money was now nearly exhausted, but after a few days she succeeded in reaching the top of the mountain. On arriving on top she saw the most beautiful land in the world. all of which belonged to an old witch, who was responsible for the lawful owners shape (The Green Bear of Orange) whenever he left his own country. He was under a spell until he returned. The girl marvelling at the beauties which surrounded her walked along until she came to a cottage which belonged to the old hag.

out after them. No sooner had they done so than their father returned having missed the key on the way.
He went to the room immediately. Apparently nothing had been stirred, so he locked the door again and called the three daughters together. The two elder girls denied blandly their entrance to the room. When he came to the young one he told her he knew they were in the room, and if she refused to confess what happened he would whip her. She told the whole story, and to their he was not as angry as they expected he would be. He asked the eldest which would she think worse of him or the fine man she was getting. She replied "I would think worse of you papa." On putting a similar question to the second girl she replied as her sister did, "I would think worse of you papa." On questioning the third however she said she would think worse of her "Green Bear of Orange." "But he is an animal" said the father. "yes but we are all animals papa" she replied. After twelve months the finest man in the world come along. The eldest girl duly fell in love with him, and married him. after another year the second finest man arrived

and pickaxes. They made a deep hole and put wood into it. They them brought the body laid it on top, and set fire to it. They then took the spear out of the head, placed wood under it and set fire to it.
They let the ashes fly with the wind lest it may have any harmful tendencies. Shortly after this the Green Bear of Orange brought home his bride. He was now the owner of this beautiful little country. The spell was broken, and the three women who gave the comb, the scissors, the soap and the needle and thread to the girl were the expelled sisters of the Green Bear of Orange. They were now restored to their own country, three pretty young girls. In a short time they too got married and lived happily ever after. The Green Bear of Orange and his wife were most popular. He saw that all his servants were comfortable. He game them small holdings, and plenty milk and butter. They never knew what want meant after that.

Three long years at the foot of the tree Three long years waiting for thee Green Bear of Orange wont you listen to me. Immediately the Green Bear of Orange sat up and told her not ot blame him for his carelessness on the previous nights, and he explained the whole story.
He advised her to go back to the cottage and work on with the old witch as if nothing happened. Next day he employed three or four men to rid him of his persecutor. Two of them were to cut off her head with a sword. The others were to drive a spear through the head lest it would hop back on to the body again. They stood at either side of the kitchen door and when the witch and the girl were approaching with a tank one of them -one of the men - saved off the head with a blow. Immediately that it rolled off another man stuck a spear on it. They then left it there for some time and went off to milk the cattle. When the evening's work was done they went to far away farms with spades

he was senseless she prodded him under the nails with a needle, and he gave no evidence of feeling. Drops of blood fell on his shirt however.
The girl was then allowed to see him, and though feeling certain that he were alive she could not wake him. He would neither answer her nor speak to her. She wailed and called him by his name until the servants in the next room heard her. They did not speak just yet. The girl who was an excellent worker was now in the witch's employment. Nobody could wash the blood off the shirt of The Green Bear of Orange who retained his natural shape all the time while in his own land. Again, the witch asked the girl to wash the shirt. She did so, and with very great success but on the same condition as on the previous occasion. The witch granted her request but again she gave the Green Bear of Orange a draught which rendered him senseless. Again she prodded under his nails to wake

She went in and she asked for lodgings "yes are you asking for lodgings in any bodies name said the owner. "Yes" said the girl "in the name of the Green Bear of Orange." She got the lodgings.
When the Green Bear of Orange arrived home he had drops of blood in his shirt, and clots of blood in his hair. No amount of combing would get the blood out of his hair. Presently, the witch sent for the strange girl and asked her if she could get the blood out of his hair. "Certainly I can" said the girl "if you allow me spend one twelve hours with the Green Bear of Orange." The girl produced her comb, and tried to comb his hair. Immediately the blood was combed out and his hair was perfectly clean again.. Before allowing the girl to see her husband the witch made sure that he would neither speak to her nor hear her. She gave him a draught which rendered him senseless for the time being. To make sure that

until 8 o clock the following morning.
Again she got lodgings and welcome and before leaving in the morning she got the usual lunch together with soap, on which was stuck a needle and thread "Take that with you" said the woman "You might want it and do not lose it." He then brought her to a high mountain and said "You will see me no more, go home and on your way get lodgings in the same houses in my name." She did as he bade and retraced her steps lamenting. Undaunted however she employed carpenters to make ladders with the aid of which she could climb the mountain. The money was now nearly exhausted, but after a few days she succeeded in reaching the top of the mountain. On arriving on top she saw the most beautiful land in the world. all of which belonged to an old witch, who was responsible for the lawful owners shape (The Green Bear of Orange) whenever he left his own country. She was under a spell until he returned. The girl marvelling at the beauties which surrounded her walked along until she came to a cottage which belonged to the old hag.

breakfast.
After the breakfast the woman asked her where the Green Bear of Orange was. Having told her the woman gave her a comb saying "You might want this do not lose it." She also gave her a bag with a good lunch in it. They travelled on the following day as usual, the Green Bear of Orange leading in the shape of a crow and the girl following. When night came again he bade her do as she had done before, go the finest house in the nearest town and ask for lodgings in the name of the Green Bear of Orange, he remaining in the same spot until 8 oclock the following morning when she would again rejoin him. The girl did as she was ordered, and was hospitally received. In the morning when she was about to leave she got a good lunch and the woman also took a scissors off the shelf and handed it to her saying. "You might want this do not lose it." On the third night he also directed to a great house in the next town, advising her to ask for lodgings in the name of The Green Bear of Orange and that he would wait on the tree

out after them. No sooner had they done so than their father returned having missed the key on the way.
He went to the room immediately. Apparently nothing had been stirred, so he locked the door again and called the three daughters together. The two elder girls denied blandly their entrance to the room. When he came to the young one he told her he knew they were in the room, and if she refused to confess what happened he would whip her. She told the whole story, and to their he was not as angry as they expected he would be. He asked the eldest which would she think worse of him or the fine man she was getting. She replied " I would think worse of you papa." On questioning the third however she said she would think worse of her "Green Bear of Orange." "But he is an animal" said the father. "yes but we are all animals papa" she replied. After twelve months the finest man in the world come along. The eldest girl duly fell in love with him, and married him. after another year the second finest man arrived

at the fathers house and got the same reception from the second girl, that the previous man got from the first and they were duly married.
On the third year the Green bear of Orange came. Though having the appearance of a bear he had the speech, senses, and faculties of an ordinary man. The third daughter met him, welcomed him and to his christian soul she gave all the genuine affection of her young heart. Though a bear during the day, he regains his human shape every evening of six o'clock and retained it until 6 o clock the following morning. The father gave her a good fortune with the Green Bear of Orange whom she married. He changed himself into a crow, and flew along before her having advised her to follow him, and waiting for her on a hedge or on a tree every now and then. About eight o clock in the evening he advised her to go to the finest house in the nearest town and ask for lodgings in the name of the Green Bear of Orange. She did so and was cordially received by the mistress who prepared a good supper for her, and gave her also an excellent bed and

out after them. No sooner had they done so than their father returned having missed the key on the way.
He went to the room immediately. Apparently nothing had been stirred, so he locked the door again and called the three daughters together. The two elder girls denied blandly their entrance to the room. When he came to the young one he told her he knew they were in the room, and if she refused to confess what happened he would whip her. She told the whole story, and to their he was not as angry as they expected he would be. He asked the eldest which would she think worse of him or the fine man she was getting. She replied " I would think worse of you papa." On questioning the third however she said she would think worse of her "Green Bear of Orange." "But he is an animal" said the father. "yes but we are all animals papa" she replied. After twelve months the finest man in the world come along. The eldest girl daly fell in love with him, and married him. after another year the second finest man arrived

In former times there lived in south Cork a big farmer. He had three daughters.
In his home was a room which nobody could enter except himself. this room was always locked. He and his wife went visiting one day, and he and he was in such a hurry going that he left the key of the room stuck in the lock. The secret of the room was a chair on which if anybody he would get whatever request he asked while on the chair. The three daughters entered the room, and aware of the secret chair they sat on it and wished. The eldest wished for the finest man in the world. The second girl wished for the next finest, and the youngest wished for The Green Bear of Orange to be her husband. They left the room, pulling the door

Once upon a time a poor woodcutter had a boy and a girl named John and Margaret. Their mother died when they were very young. After a while their father got married and the little children's stepmother was very wicked to them. The woodcutter was not able to earn enough money to support them. One night when they thought that John and Margaret were asleep they began to say to each other there would be nothing to give the children to eat after a bit. "There is only one thing to be done to them." Said the cruel stepmother. "Early tomorrow morning we will give them a piece of bread and then we will send them into the big wood and leave them there and they will never be able to find their way home again." "My poor children" said the woodcutter "what will happen to them then."
"What else is to be done with them." said the stepmother. Now John and Margaret were not asleep and began to cry when they heard what was going to happen to them. "Sh sh" whispered John. "I have a plan." When the woodcutter and his wife were asleep John stole out the window. The grass outside was sprinkled

Pat for his mother and brought her to his own home. They lived very happy after that.[New Story]
There was a farmer there long ago who had a servant boy. The boy used be day and night gathering seaweed. This night he saw a small little hungry foal in the bottom of the cliff. The boy went to bring the foal. The foal said not to mind bringing himself. So the boy went home and told his master about the little foal. The master went with him the second night. The foal was in the same place all the time. The master went to the foal and said he would bring him. The foal told him if he would bring him that he would be sorry. The master said he didn't care that he would bring him. Very well said the foal you must give me the milk of ten cows. All night

Pat for his mother and brought her to his own home. They lived very happy after that.There was a farmer there long ago who had a servant boy. The boy used be day and night gathering seaweed. This night he saw a small little hungry foal in the bottom of the cliff. The boy went to bring the foal. The foal said not to mind bringing himself. So the boy went home and told his master about the little foal. The master went with him the second night. The foal was in the same place all the time. The master went to the foal and said he would bring him. The foal told him if he would bring him that he would be sorry. The master said he didn't care that he would bring him. Very well said the foal you must give me the milk of ten cows. All night

There was a man in Ballinclare long ago. Once he employed a servant boy and the boy only stayed a month with him. About a week after he going, the man was going to Cork with the butter. In the road between Cork and Kerry two robbers came out from inside the fence. They were taking his butter and his money from him. One of them said to leave him alone so the other stopped. I know now he said, are you the man I was employed by so he rose up his mask and the man recognized him. He carried the man to a terrible robbers house. At that time there was Five pounds for his head. The man went to bed in the corner and when the robber came in he did not like to see him in his house but all the same he went. When he went to bed the servant boy started to redden an iron. He drove it through the robbers heart. He cut off his head and put it into a bag. The man and servant boy had a good day out of the price of the head.Told by Patrick Casey to his son John. Patrick heard it from his father,who died about eleven years ago, aged about 65. He was a small farmer. Never left native place. Taken down 1-2-'37.

his hair and a piece of the cape of his coat. All the people was invited, round the country, rich and poor. The king asked the people “do they know any one that didn’t come.” One man said that he knew a poor boy in the wood that didn't come. The king sent for him. The man handled him very rough so he didn't come. The king himself went for him. He came. The girl knew him. The lock fitted his hair, the piece of cloth fitted his coat. Jack and the girl got married; they lived very happy together. They had plenty of everything.Told by Patrick Casey, Coumduff, Aunascaul, Farmer. Age 50 yrs. Heard it from his father, who died five years ago, aged 80. Both never left native place. Heard story nearly 40 yrs ago. Taken down 23/3/'38.

He consented. The girl told Jack to have a sleep in her lap because the monster wouldn't come until 12 o’clock. While Jack was sleeping she cut a lock out of his hair and a piece of the “cape” out of his coat. The hour came. Jack had a big stick in his hand, out of the wood. The monster rose in the lake. They went for the battle. Jack threw the monster back into lake with the first blow. They held fighting for two hours. After two hours the monster didn't rise any more. They were to fight until some one of them be killed. The young man was marching in the wood all the time while the fight was going on. After the fight the young man carried the lady home. He said that it was himself that saved the lady's life. There was great rejoicing then in the castle. Poor Jack went back cutting the wood. They came the second day. It was a far better fight than the first one. They tried the lake the second day. Jack killed the monster the sixth day. It was the nobleman who was thanked all the time. The girl was to be married to the nobleman in a week's time. The girl told the king that is wasn't that man who saved her life. She said the man that saved her life she had a lock of

There was a man and a woman long ago living in a wood. They were very poor and their only support was the man cutting the wood and selling it. There was a young son born to them whose name was Jack. When he was a year old his father died. His mother was very poor then. She used have to beg every day to support the child. The child grew up to be a man. He was very powerful and strong. He used also cut the wood like his father to support himself and his mother. There was a lake near the wood. There was a monster in the lake. Every year the monster used get a young girl to eat. There was a king living in the place. He had a beautiful daughter. So her time came to be eaten by the monster. There was a great mourning around the country because the King's Daughter was to be eaten by the monster. There was a young man in the place and he said he would fight the monster if she would marry him. The girl agreed. The day came to the girl be eaten. They came to the shore of the lake. Jack was all the time cutting the wood. He saw them all at the lake. He inquired what was wrong. He found out. He asked the nobleman to let himself fight the monster.

fish. Then the son took the stick up and went back to the castle. He gave the stick to the girl. Then he went looking for the little man. He met him outside the castle and told him he had done what he told him to do. The little man was very much surprised. Then the little man asked the son go to the stable and get two horses. The son went into the stable and got the two horses. Then he brought them to the little man. The little man said to his son “now we will ride to a forest and there I will tell you the second thing to do.” They got on the horses and rode away from the castle. They did not speak during the journey. They came to a very high hill. When they got to top the son saw a forest about three miles long and a mile wide. The little man said “You must cut down that forest with a hatchet in one day. Tomorrow you will begin.” The little man turned his horse and rode back to the castle. The son was close behind him. When he came to the stable he saw the girl and she came over to him. He told her what he had to do on the morrow and she told him to go to her room before he would go the next day. The son said he would. Then the girl went into the castle. The son put the horse in the stable and went into the castle and got his

himself into a hawk and flew at the bird. Then the bird flew as fast as he could but the hawk flew faster. It was not long until the hawk over took the bird. The hawk kicked the bird and beat it with its wings. Then the bird who was the son changed himself into a fish and dropped into a lake. Then the little red man changed himself into a shark and went into the lake. Then the shark beat the fish but the son changed himself into a whale and killed the shark. Then the son changed himself back into his own form again and got his horse. Then he rode after the girl. It was not long till he overtook her. When he told her he had killed the little man she was very glad. Then they saw a man riding towards them and the son let out a shout of joy “Its my father” said the son. Then the son told his father what happened. The father and son and girl went back to the castle. They found a pot of gold in it. Then the son and girl got married and lived happy in the castle after.

He gave the hatchet to the girl and she said “We must get out of the castle today and get away from the little man without him seeing you for he may kill the two of us. I will see you after the dinner and tell you what we will do.” The son said he would come to her room after the dinner. Then the son went out of the room leaving the girl alone. The son went to his own room and started reading a book. Then about an hour after he went to his dinner. After he finish-ed he went to the girls room and she (were) was there. She told him to go out to the stable and get two horses and put saddles on them. The son went down to the stables and got the horses and brought them to the girl. Then the two of them rode away from the castle. They were not long gone till the little man missed them. Then he changed himself into a bird and flew as fast as he could after them. It was not long till he saw them. Then he changed himself back into his own form again. When the son saw him he said to the girl “Ride as fast as you can for the little man is coming and I will have to fight him. The girl said she would. Then the son changed himself into a bird. When the little man saw this he changed

dinner. After he had his dinner eaten he went to his room and lay in his bed and went to sleep. He woke in the evening and got his supper. When he had finished he asked the girl for a book. She gave him one and he went to his room. Then he started reading and he did not stop till midnight. Then he went into bed and slept till morning. The he got up and the girl got his breakfast. Then the girl went to her room and got a small shining hatchet and brought it to the son and said “This is a magic hatchet and bring it to the wood and hit one of the trees with it and they will all fall to the ground.” The son took the hatchet and got a horse and rode away to the wood. When he reached it he got off his horse and struck one of the trees. Then suddenly a great rumbling noise came from all over the wood and all the trees lay flat on the ground. The son was very pleased. Then he got on his horse and rode back to the castle. When he arrived he met the little man at the castle and told him he had done what he had told him. The little man was very angry and he said “Meet me in the castle at six o’clock. That’s all” Then the little man walked away. The son put the horse in the stable and went into the castle.

fish. Then the son took the stick up and went back to the castle. He gave the stick to the girl. Then he went looking for the little man. He met him outside the castle and told him he had done what he told him to do. The little man was very much surprised. Then the little man asked the son go to the stable and get two horses. The son went into the stable and got the two horses. The he brought them to the little man. The little man said to his son “now we will ride to a forest and there I will tell you the second thing to do.” They got on the horses and rode away from the castle. They did not speak during the journey. They came to a very high hill. When they got to top the son saw a forest about three miles long and a mile wide. The little man said “You must cut down that forest with a hatchet in one day. Tomorrow you will begin.” The little man turned his horse and rode back to the castle. The son was close behind him. When he came to the stable he saw the girl and she came over to him. He told her what he had to do on the morrow and she told him to go to her room before he would go the next day. The son said he would. Then the girl went into the castle. The son put the horse in the stable and went into the castle and got his

mug to take all the water in the lake out of it and when you have that done take all the fish out of it and kill them and hide them up on the side of the bank and if you have not that done in three hours I will kill you.” The son said he would try and then the little man went back to the castle. When the son saw him gone he ran back to the castle and went into girl’s room. The girl was waiting for him and she asked him what had he to do and the son told her. Then the girl went to a large press and took him a shining stick She gave it to the son and told (his) him to go to the lake and hit the water and all the water in the lake would go out of it. And all the fish would go to the bottom of the lake and to hit them with the stick and they would jump up on the bank and die. The son took the stick and went (doo) down to lake and struck the water. All the water in the lake disappeared. The fish went down to the bottom of the lake. (and) Then the son went down to the bottom and struck the fish. Then the fish jumped up on the bank and dropped dead Then the son went up to top of the bank He layed down the stick and pilled up the

little man. And the little man told him he would show him how to change himself into any animal he liked. The son said he would like to learn. The little man took him to a room and showed how to turn himself into any animal he liked. After he showed him he said “I will give you three chances to do three things and if you fail I will kill you. To-morrow I will ask you to do the first thing.” Then the little man went out and the son did not see him again that day. In the evening he went to bed but he did not sleep for he was thinking of what he would have to do tomorrow. Next morning the son got up early and began looking for the girl. He found her standing outside the castle. He told her what the little man said the day before and she said to him, “Come up to my room when the little man tells you what to do.” The son said he would and went into the castle. He saw the little man inside and the little man said "Come with me” The little man brought the son to a field. On the middle of the field there was a big lake and fish were jumping up on the sides of the bank. The little man said to the son “I will give you a

said “Good bye” and walked away The son went into the castle and he met the little man who called him outside and changed him into a horse. He put him under a plough and made him work all day. In the evening he was so tired that he went to bed without his supper. When he woke the next morning he was very tired and hungry. He went into the kitchen to get his breakfast and the little man was in it all so. When he saw the son he changed him into a dog. Then he brought the dog out hunting. In the evening they came home and the little man changed the son back into his own form again. The son was so hungry and tired that he fainted. The little man put his hand into his pocket ad took out a little trumpet and blew it and the girl that was talking to the son came back in. The little man said “give him some food and drink and then put him to bed.” The girl went in to the next room and got some food and brought it to the son. When the son got the food he got better and he went to bed. In the morning when he got his breakfast he went out for a walk and he met the

Once upon a time there lived a father and a son together. Every year they went the fair of Swineford. One year they were going to the fair and they met a small red haired man who asked the father where were they going. The father told him and the little man said “If you will give me your son for a year I will give you a hundred pounds.” The father said he would let him go but he must return in a year. The father took the money and went home with it. The little man took the son to a stone castle. He gave him his supper and he showed him his bed. The son went in to the bed and slept all night. He woke up early the next morning and got up and got his breakfast. After he had finished he began to walk around the castle and he met a girl and she asked him who was he and where did he come from. He told her and she said “Beware the little man wants to keep you forever and he will show you how to turn yourself into any animal you like. Anytime you are in need give three whistles and I will come your aid. The son thanked her and she

not earn much himself by being a Turner, and to have his son two hundred miles away from him.
The turner had to bring his son to a far distant place. On the way he met a magician who took a fancy to him and offered to teach him without any fee. The poor turner accepted the offer. After several years away the son did not return. The turner set out to find his son. On the way he met a pony. He got on his back. The pony seemed to fly rather gallop. They arrived at the shore and swam a long way. They landed on an island and the pony changed into a man. The man told the turner he knew what he wanted and that his son was a prisoner on the island by a magician. You will know your son

father, and worked for him in the shape of a little pony.
The magician came one day when the father was drunk, and bought the pony for a few pounds. Then the son tried to get back to his father again. One day he turned himself into a trout, but the magician sent his pupils after him in the form of otters. The son then turned himself into a pigeon but the otters turned themselves into hawks and followed him. The pursuit was so keen that the son had to turn himself into a ring, and fly into one of the Lords castle windows and stay [as?] a ring on the Lords finger. The hawks turned themselves into people and demanded the ring. The Lord was very interested in this pursuit

not earn much himself by being a Turner, and to have his son two hundred miles away from him.
The turner had to bring his son to a far distant place. On the way he met a magician who took a fancy to him and offered to teach him without any fee. The poor turner accepted the offer. After several years away the son did not return. The turner set out to find his son. On the way he met a pony. He got on his back. The pony seemed to fly rather rather gallop. Arrived at the shore and swam a long way. They landed on an island and the pony changed into a man. The man told the turner he knew what he wanted and that his son was a prisoner on the island by a magician. You will know your son

not earn much himself by being a Turner, and to have his son two hundred miles away from him.
The turner had to bring his son to a far distant place. On the way he met a magician who took a fancy to him and offered to teach him without any fee. The poor turner accepted the offer. After several years away the son did not return. The turner set out to find his son. On the way he met a pony. He got on his back. The pony seemed to fly rather rather gallop. Arrived at the shore and swam a long way. They landed on an island and the pony changed into a man. The man told the turner he knew what he wanted and that his son was a prisoner on the island by a magician. You will know your

job when the young man was not coming back. So she got a job there boiling the kettles and looking after the fire. Then some part of the night when all the fun was nearly over, she went into the drawing room when they were all sitting down. Then she said "gentle men and ladies would ye mind if I showed ye a bit of sport." and they said they would be delighted. So she stood in the center of the room and she had a small box in her hand so she tipped the box and out jumped a cock and a hen. Then she put her hand in the box and threw them a grain of oats and there was great laughing and shouting. Then all the fun stopped when the hen picked up a grain of oats, and she ran over to the cock and said "you rogue of a devil, you forget the day that I found my great grandmothers ring that was lost three hundred years ago." Then the hen picked up another grain and ran over to the cock and said, " you rogue of a devil, you forget the day I set the five acres of oats for you, grew it, cut it, threshed it, won it , and bagged it. Then the hen picked up another grain and she ran over to the cock again and said, "You rogue of a devil you forget the day I tore my dress going around the hamper of gold. Then the young man jumped up and said, "this is my wife," for according as the hen was talking to the cock everything was coming back to his mind and he left the other fine lady that he fell in love with, behind him, and there were two weddings that night instead

he said he saw two crows coming and she said "They are my two brothers." Then she took a ball of thread out of her pocket and she told him "when their horses will come up near us they will open their mouth to swallow us and fling this ball of thread into the horses mouth. and so he did, and the two horses fell before them. Then they rode away themselves until they came to a cross road and the horses disappeared. So they walked along the road until they came to a small little house. Then they went in there to see could they make a cup of tea and the old man said that they could. So they made the tea and the old man told them that there was a great wedding in that great house near. Then the young man said that he would go up there to see could he get a job, and to his great surprise what was it but his father's house. It was his own brother that was getting married and that was the time he knew where he was, and at the same time he forgot all about the girl he had left in the house where he drank the tea. Then himself and another young lady fell in love with one another. Then the girl that was in the old man's house said she would go up to the great house and see could she get a

said to himself that the ring was a hard job but this job was harder so the daughter brought out his breakfast to him and he had not the horses even tackled and he said to the daughter that this was a job he was not able to do. Then the girl told him to sit down and eat his breakfast and she would do it. So she tipped a little box and out with a man a plough and a pair of horses. He ploughed the ground and set the seed in it. Then he cut it and bound it and stacked it. Then she tipped another little box and out came a man and a threshing machine and he threshed it and won it and bagged it. Then the old lady came out at ten o clock and she was surpassed to see it all done. Then she told the young man that she wanted him in the drawing room tomorrow morning. The daughter told him that night that her mother and herself and her two sisters would be running around a hamper of gold in the drawing room and she told him "you will not know my mother from myself and my two sisters for we will be all dressed alike. The four of us will be running around the hamper of gold and we will

job when the young man was not coming back. So she got a job there boiling the kettles and looking after the fire. Then some part of the night when all the fun was nearly over, she went into the drawing room when they were all sitting down. Then she said "gentle men and ladies would ye mind if I showed ye a bit of sport." and they said they would be delighted. So she stood in the center of the room and she had a small box in her hand so she tipped the bow and out jumped a cock and a hen. Then she put her hand in the bow and threw them a grain of oats and there was great laughing and shouting. Then all the fun stopped when the hen picked up a grain of oats, and she ran over to the cock and said "you rogue of a devil, you forget the day that I found my great grandmothers ring that was lost three hundred years ago." Then the hen picked up another grain and ran over to the cock and said, " you rogue of a devil, you forget the day I set the five acres of oats for you, grew it, cut it, threshed it, won it , and bagged it. Then the hen picked up another grain and she ran over to the cock again and said, "You rogue of a devil you forget the day I tore my dress going around the hamper of gold. Then the young man jumped up and said, "this is my wife," for according as the hen was talking to the cock everything was coming back to his mind and he left the other fine lady that he fell in love with, behind him, and there were two weddings that night instead

he said he saw two crows coming and she said "They are my two brothers." Then she took a ball of thread out of her pocket and she told him "when their horses will come up near us they will open their mouth to swallow us and fling this ball of thread into the horses mouth. and so he did, and the two horses fell before them. Then they rode away themselves until they came to a cross road and the horses disappeared. So they walked along the road until they came to a small little house. Then they went in there to see could they make a cup of tea and the old man said that they could. So they made the tea and the old man told them that there was a great wedding in that great house near. Then the young man said that he would go up there to see could he get a job. and to his great surprise what was it but his father's house. It was his own brother that was getting married and that was the time he knew where he was, and at the same time he forgot all about the girl he had left in the house where he drank the tea. Then himself and another young lady fell in love with one another. Then the girl that was in the old man's house said she would go up to the great house and see could she get a

be all saying "will you have me will you have me". Then she told him that she would push near the hamper of gold and tear her dress and "do not say anything until we go around four or five times and then you can say " I will have the one with the torn dress." Then when all was over she told the boy that night " My mother thinks that it is I thtat done all for you and the two of us will be killed". Then she told the boy to go down to the stable at night at eleven oclock and to saddle and bridle a gray mare that was in the stable for her and to saddle and bridle a black horse that was in the stable also for yourself and we must ride away together before twelve o clock. So they rode along through the night and coming on the morning she told the boy to look back to know did he see anyone coming and he said "No". Then they rode away for a long time and she told him to look back a second time to know did he see anyone coming and he said no. Then they rode for another while and she told him to look back the third time to know did he see anyone coming and

said to himself that the ring was a hard job but this job was harder so the daughter brought out his breakfast to him and he had not the horses even tackled and he said to the daughter that this was a job he was not able to do. Then the girl told him to sit down and eat his breakfast and she would do it. So he tipped a little box and out with a man a plough and a pair of horses. He ploughed the ground and set the seed in it. Then he cut it and bound it and stacked it. Then she tipped another little box and out came a man and a threshing machine and he threshed it and won it and bagged it. Then the old lady came out at ten o clock and she was surpassed to see it all done. Then she told the young man that she wanted him in the drawing room tomorrow morning. The daughter told him that night that her mother and herself and her two sisters would be running around a hamper of gold in the drawing room and she told him "you will not know my mother from myself and my two sisters for we will be all dressed alike. The four of us will be running around the hamper of gold and we will

to him and she asked him what did he want. Then he said " I want to know can I get a job here" and she said " All right Do you know anything about stables" and he said "yes". Then she told him that in the morning he was to go out to the stable and to get her grandmother's ring there that was lost three hundred years ago and he said in his own mind that it was a hard job. So he went out in the morning to the stable and according as he threw out a fork of manure he thought that there would three forks rise to the one he had thrown out. Then one of the daughters brought out his breakfast to him and he told her he could never do it. Then she told him to eat his breakfast and she would do it, and she threw out three forks of manure and then she found the ring and she gave it to him. Then she told him "My mother will come out about ten o clock and she will ask you did you find the ring and you will say you did what about it." Then the mother came out and asked him did he get the ring and he said he did what about it. The old lady said "You will have to set five acres of oats to-morrow and cut it and bind it stack it thresh it and bag it before your breakfast. Then the boy

and asked the king to come with her to see his daughter. So they both set out for the young lady's castle; they all had a great welcome for them. The men went out to hunt till the dinner would be ready. The old woman asked the young lady to go for a walk but the girl said "no, not till I am with her". "Go along you slut and cook the dinner and do your work till we come back", said the step-mother. "Not one foot she will go without me", said the servant. So they had to bring her, They were all sitting in the garden when the step mother took out a bottle and told the young lady to taste it as it was a great bottle her father got when he was sick. "Take it yourself first", said the servant girl. The old woman made out she was going to take a sup when they pushed the bottle and it all ran down the woman's neck and poisoned her so the men when they came back put down a fire of pitch and tar and burned her into ashes So now the old king and servant girl got married and went home to the castle. So, now put down the kettle and make the tay and if they don't live happy that you and I may.

then she was in great humour till a year and a day was up; then she went out to the well and said "there was never a nicer lady in the world than me", and the voice said "The king's daughter is nicer". and she said "its a long time since I ate her heart and livers. The voice said "it was the heart and livers of a cat". The woman nearly died when she heard that, and she said she would never get better till she would get the heart and livers of the king's daughter. So the men set out again for the round tower. The girl had a great welcome for them and also got ready a good dinner for them. "How will we eat and we coming to kill you"? said they, but she told them to eat and never mind till they would be done. The men men killed a little dog that came in when they were eating and took his heart and livers. They told the girl to go away as the next men might kill her. So they brought home the heart and livers to the woman; she ate them and got better. The girl went away till she came to a light in a house. She went in, there was no no one inside but a big cat sitting at the fire. He spoke to her and told her she could stay the night and sleep in his bed and he would sleep at her feet; so she stayed for three nights with the cat and each morning he used to go out for a walk but the third day he did not come back and the girl was

Taken down by Padraic Mac an Ríogh (age 14). From his grandmother with whom he lives in Carrowmoneash, Oranmore. His grandmother, Mrs Ryder, aged 84 years, heard this story from her own grandfather, who told her the story when she was a child:There was a king one time and his wife died and they had three sons and one daughter. The king got married again and his wife did not like the sons. One day the three sons went to work and they were twenty years gone when the daughter said she would go to look for them. She was a month looking for them before she found them. When she found them she went to the house and she knocked at the door and one of the sons opened it and she said to him you are my brother. I am he said and your other two brothers are out robbing. Come in and I will put you under the bed and if the brothers do not say anything I will keep you. After a while the two sons

stayed up to see what happened to her sister, and she stayed under the bush in the cabbage plot. In the middle of the night the old horse came and took the girl up on his back and took her away to the Green Hill. They went into the hill and came to the castle and he showed her all the rooms, but told her not to go into one special room and if she did that he'd kill her. The man went away and the first room she went into was the one he told her not to enter. She saw the dead heads in the room, and she ran out, but she was covered with blood. When the man came home and saw the blood he took a knife and cut off her head and hung it in the room. The next night the third sister stayed up to find out what had happened to her sisters. In the middle of the night a horse came into a garden and took the girl up on his back and came to the Green Hill. They went into the castle and he told her to go to all the rooms but one. When he was gone she went into the forbidden room, and

eel of himself. Then he made a turkey of himself and then he made a big man of himself. The man was so proud of his son that he sent him with him again to learn more tricks. When they were on the ship sailing away he told the man he would never see his son again because he did not put it in the bargain to bring his son back in a year and a day. The man went home very sad. His wife knew him very sad looking and she asked him what was wrong. He said he would never see his son again because he did not put it in the bargain to get the son in a year and a day. So he took a bag of money and went looking for his son. He searched every place until the money was spent. He was ordered to get out of ship. It was night then and he saw a big clump of turf and went into the middle of it and slept there. In the morning he saw a big man. He carried a big crib on his back

easily able to make a right choice Jack had to stand to his word and had to give the young man to his father. The youth knew well Jack would not let him him go so easily. O n their way home they came to a place where a fair was being held "Jack is waiting here now for me" said the son so I'll change myself into a horse. Let you go and get a halter and put me up for sale. Jack will buy me but be sure and keep the halter and I'll be able to get back to you again. Everything happened as the youth had told. Jack bought the horse which he knew well to be the gentlman's son for three hundred pounds but the the father refused to give the halter. The gentleman had no sooner left the town than he was overtaken by his son. The youth then went home with his father and lived very happy with him.

end of the time which you have mentioned." I will without a doubt said Jack." Next morning after breakfast Jack and the gentleman's son and the twelve other men struck off on their journey. When a year and a day had gone the gentleman was waiting for their return. When they returned at the end of the time they said the gentleman was delighted. When supper was over Jack commanded the gentleman's son and the twelve other men to show some of their powers they did so and the gentleman was delighted to see that his son was nearly as good as the others. Jack asked the gentleman to leave him come with them for another year and that he would make him as powerful as himself. The gentleman did so. At the end of the time the gentleman was expecting the return of his son but there was no trace or tidings of him coming. The gentleman went in search of him and after travelling for three days and three nights he came to a

When the man arrived home the following day he told Bridget about the great cow he had got that could give them gold. When they asked the cow to give them gold. She could not
Bridget was very vexed and she sent out the man the same night and told him to build his house and not to return home for the red man. He has only at the place where he was to build his house when the little red man came out before him and gave him a stick and told him say "turn around stick." On his way home he went to his wife’s sister’s house again and told them before going to bed not to say "turn around stick" but they did and the stick turned around and began to beat and kill everybody in the house and they promised to give back the cow if he would stop the stick and he did and they gave him back the cow and Bridget and himself lived happily.

There was once a man who lived with his wife on the mountain. They had only a small little house and when a storm came it knocked the little house. At last they decided to build a new house. At about twelve o’clock at night the man set out to build the house.
He was not gone very far when a little red man came before and told him and told him he would give him a cow that could make gold and that he should go home that night. The little man agreed to go home but on his way home he went into his wife’s sister’s house and slept there during the night. Before going to bed that night he told the people of the house not to ask the cow to give them gold and when they got the man asleep they asked the cow to give them gold and when they saw that she could they sent home a different cow with the man.

white woman, but immediately a hair jumped out of the white woman and laughed & said "You are mine and you'll have to come with me" The young man wished to be a greyhound, and he was, and he followed the hair, and after a long pursuit he caught and killed her. When she was killed a pigeon rose out of her and laughed and said - "You are mine and you'll have to come with me." The young man wished to be a hawk and he was, and after a long flight he caught the pigeon and killed her. When the pigeon was a killing a white egg dropped out of her and the egg said - "Spare me I'm the white woman"
But the young man took the egg and cracked it and the white woman was killed and she never troubled him again. The young man and his wife came back to the palace & they lived happy ever afterwards. The end

to pick her out from her other two sisters & that no man could do it as there was no odds between them, and that when the man failed the King used to get him killed. She said that the three would be standing together with three pigeons in their hands and that she would move her pigeon from one hand to another and when he would see that to say to the King that she was the youngest daughter.
So the next day he came back to the palace and demanded the youngest daughter off the King. The King brought them out and they were as much alike as three eggs. The boy watched them and he saw the girl moving the pigeon and he picked her out as the youngest. So the King said he was right and they were married. On the young man 21st birthday himself and his wife were out hunting in a wood & the white woman ran up to the young man and said - "you are mine & you'll have to come with me now." The man put up his gun and shot the

the meat among them. So the boy divided it and he gave the finest to the pigeon, the coursest to the hawk and the bones to the dog. They were all very pleased with the way he divided the meat, and they asked him to stay the night with them and he agreed. So the greyhound lay at his back, and the hawk lay on his chest, and the pigeon covered his face with her wings and they all slept comfortably during the night. The next morning the boy said he'd have to be going & the three said he wouldn't go till they would give him three wishes. So the greyhound said - "Any time you wish to be a greyhound, you have only to put out your right hand and wish from your heart and you will be the swiftest greyhound that ever ran. And the hawk said - "Any time you wish to be a hawk you have only to put out your right hand and wish from your heart and you will be keenest hawk that ever flew." And the pigeon said - "Any time you wish to be a pigeon you have only to put out you right hand and wish from your heart

The fisherman kept his son to school and he got on very well and became a great scholar. He came home and one day he was searching for something and he got the piece of paper behind the couple. He was a very good scholar and he was able to read it, so he went and told his mother that his father had sold him to a white woman when would be 21 years of age. So he told his mother to bake a bonnock for him and that he would go away some place else. The mother was very uneasy about him going away, but she baked the bonnock for him and in the morning he started off.
He travelled all that day and when night came he went into a wood to sleep. When he lay down he heard a greyhound a hawk and a pigeon and they were fighting over a piece of meal which they had, and the greyhound said that they would leave the settling of it to the first man that would pass by. The boy heard this and walked past where they were fighting and the greyhound asked him to divide

Once upon a time there lived three men named Hudden and Dudden and Daniel OLeary. Hudden and Dudden were brothers and lived together and Daniel OLeary lived with his mother. Hudden and Sudden were on very bad terms with Daniel OLeary and Daniel OLeary just thought as little about them. They spent their time fighting and trying to get each other's land. Now Daniel OLeary was very clever and had a great nack of getting money. So when his mother died he brought her to town. He propped her up with a stick beside a well near the town and went up the town for a drink. When he got his drink he told the shopkeeper to go down and call up his mother and that if she wouldn't come to give her a shake as she was very deaf. When the shopkeeper gave the old woman a shake she fell in the well and he got into a terrible state. OLeary shouted that he had killed his mother and that he would tell on him to the soldiers. The shopkeeper said he would give Daniel OLeary £200 if he would keep his mouth

Daniel OLeary as they thought. The very next day they were more than surprised when they saw Daniel OLeary with droves of cattle and tons of money, so they decided to bring him to the well again and throw him in it. So they caught him again and brought him to the well and threw him in. But Daniel OLeary was a good swimmer and he saw to the far bank. Hudden tried to push him down again but Daniel OLeary caught him by the leg and pushed him into the well. Now Dudden jumped in to save Hudden and as both were bad swimmers they caught hold of each other in the well and drowned each other. Daniel OLeary went home and got Hudden and Duddens place for himself and lived happy ever after.

The following stories have been told to me by James Murphy, Aughanatulrid, Parish of Cloone, farmer, aged 60 years. He heard them from his mother, Mary Murphy née Donohue who died about 12 years ago aged 80. Both James and the mother were illiterate. Mary Murphy in her day was in great demand for telling stories.
Once upon a time there lived a fisher-man and he used to be out fishing every night. For three nights he was out fishing, and what never happened

very excited except the two brothers. They were seemingly quite indifferent as to what might happen. The Princess stepped forward. She ordered the brothers to go outside with their respective stock. One was to stand outside one door with his stock + the other was to stand outside another door with his. When she called each with his stock was to come through the door at which he was standing, towards her into the palace in front of the King + courtiers. Then she said she would make her selection. The two brothers did as they were told + when she called both came in. she knew at once which was her husband by the gold chains on the necks of his stock. She walked over to Billy + embraced him + said ‘You are my husband! The Riddle was solved. Billy + the Princess lived happily together afterwards. Jack + his stock set out on the road of adventure again. Nothing ever afterwards happened to disturb the peace of their lives.

The giants' home contained many rooms, and these the boy explored, and found an enormous quantity of gold in each of them.
He left the place highly pleased, but returned the next day with a horse and two big sacks. The sacks he filled with gold and placed on the horse's back, and he made his way home to his mother. On arrival at the house he put one bag at the front door, and another at the back. His mother was over-joyed to see him, and gave him a very hearty welcome, and prepared a appetizing meal for him. When this was finished he led her out to see the gold, and what she felt can be better imagined than explained. Needless to say the two of them lived very happily together ever after.

Immediately after this, the boy met the giant's brother who had two heads. This giant also addressed the lad and said he would have him for supper, but the boy spoke to the stripes as before, and they held the giant fast, until his head was cut off too.
As the lad continued his journey he met a third brother who was endowed with three heads, and looked very fierce indeed. The stripes again came to the boy's rescue, and this giant met the same fate as his brothers. The boy was more or less perplexed at what was taking place on his homeward journey and wondered what was to be the outcome of it all. While he was meditating on this, his attention was drawn to a flag which was on his path, and which he had never before noticed. This he endeavoured to remove with the aid of his knife , and after some trouble succeeded in doing so. Now he could plainly see an underground stairs, made of stone, and there he descended. On reaching the bottom, he was met by a dreadful looking giantess who accused him of killing her three sons. The lad said nothing , but the stripes preformed the work and her ugly head went rolling to the ground.

Once upon a time, a little boy lived in a small house with his step mother, who was very poor. She was an exceedingly cruel woman, and treated him very badly, giving him nothing but hard, dry, crusts of bread to eat.
One morning, he left his wretched home, and to his great delight found employment at the king's palace. Here he was obliged to look after the cows, and was very happy and contented. The cows numbered about thirty, and there was one beautiful little white-faced bull amongst them. The young lad was very fond of this little animal, and rode about on his back each day. The bull confided in the lad and told him a secret he had never made known to anyone before. He asked him to, screw off his right horn, and the boy did so, and to his great surprise found tea , sugar, jam, wine, grapes, oranges, cakes and many other eatables. The little lad was charmed, and immediately sat down and had a great feast. The bull was delighted now to have given such pleasure and satisfaction to the boy, and told him if he were ever in need of anything to screw off that horn, and he would never be disappointed. Everything went well for some time, and the

Long ago there were two men living in the same parish. Their names were Hud and Dud. Both of them had humps on their backs. One night Hud was passing by a graveyard and he heard the fairies singing.The song they were singing was "Dé Luain Dé Mairt. Hud stopped to listen to them. He listened to them for a while and then he started to sing himself. "Dé Luain Dé Mairt Dé Luain Dé Mairt is Dé Caoidaín.
When the fairies heard the beautiful song they brought hem in and took off the hump from his back. The next day he met Dud and he told him the story of how he got rid of his hump. The next night Dud went to the graveyard and he heard the fairies singing their new song and he sang all the days of the week. The

Story
Once upon a time there lived a man. He was coming from a fair. He had a cruch on his back. He heard fairies singing in a fort. So he stood. listening. They singing Dia Luain, De Mairt and he began to sing the same adding De Caodaoine. When the man went home he was in a great glee because he was hardly able to walk. He then went over to a man who had a cruch on his back and told him his story. He told him to go to the fort and start to sing De Luain, De Mairt, De Caodaoine, Diardaoin. When the fairies heard him singing De Deardaoin they came out, put the other man's cruch on his back

I was passing the fairy rath beside the Kilmanahan road I heard the sweetest music I ever heard. I stopped to listen and i heard a woman's voice singing. I could not at first catch the words. But on putting my ear close to the ground I heard these words. Dia Luan, Dia Máirt, Dia Luan, Dia Máirt repeated over and over again. Partly out of fun I sang Dia Luan, Dia Máirt,Dia Luan, Dia Máirt,Dia Luan, Dia Máirt, Dia Ceadaoin. Suddenly I heard a woman's voice say go at once and see who has altered my song so nicely". After a few moments another voice said "It is a man with a hump". So I suddenly found myself on the road with-out a hump and feeling better than ever before".
When Jack heard this he made up his mind that he would try to rid himself of his hump in the same way. He went to the rath and heard the same song. He bent close to the ground and sang out "Dia Luain, Dia Máirt,Dia Ceadaoin, Daordaoin is Dia h-Aoine". Suddenly a woman's voice called out angrily "Go at once and see who has spoiled my nice song". After a few minutes another voice replied "A man with a hump" Go back" said the first voice, "and put another hump upon him". Poor Madden suddenly found himself with two humps instead of one and he heard the fairies singing.

the old witch put the whistle to her lips and blew and all them came she asked where was the Gairdín na brideóg and none of them knew where it was. The old witch said to the boy that she had another sister and she was over all the fishes and led him to her house. The boy told her his story and when the fishes came she asked them where was Gairdín na brideóg and none of them knew where it was. Then that witch said she had another sister and she was over all the birds. She shown him her house. The boy went then and told her his story. When it struck twelve she put a whistle to her lips and all the birds came in and lied in the floor but the eagle was missing; she blew the second time and the eagle didnt come. She blew a third time and he came in and lied on the floor. She asked him where he was he when she blew the first whistle and he said he hatching in his nest in Gairdín na brideog. She asked him where was he when she gave the second blow and

and told her his story. When it struck twelve she put a whistle to her lips and all the birds came in and lied in the floor but the Eagle was missing. She blew a second time and the eagle didn't come, she blew a third time and he came in and lied in the floor. She asked him where was he when she blew the first whistle and he said he was hatching in his nest in Gáirdín na Bridóg. She asked him where was he when she gave the second blow and he said he was coming through the fire. She asked him where was he when she gave the third. He said he was coming in the door. Then she told him to bring the boy and show him Gáirdín na Bridóg. She told the eagle to stay with the boy till he have his business done. The eagle went off and carried the boy under his wing till they came to Gáirdín na Bridóg.

and told her his story. When it struck twelve she put a whistle to her lips and all the birds came in and lied in the floor but the Eagle was missing. She blew a second time and and the eagle didn't come, she blew a third time and he came in and lied in the floor. She asked him where was he when she blew the first whistle and he said he was hatching in his nest in Gáirdín na Bridóg. She asked him where was he when she gave the second blow and he said he was coming through the fire. She asked him where was he when she gave the third. He said he was coming in the door. Then she told him to bring the boy and show him Gáirdín na Bridóg. She told the eagle to stay with the boy till he have his business done. The eagle went off and carried the boy under his wing till they came to Gáirdín na Bridóg.

There was once a man and he had three sons. One day their father fell sick and they had tried all plans to cure him. One day a witch came in and she said that nothing would cure him unless he ate three apples from Gáirdín na brideóg. Next day he sent his three sons out in search of Gáirdín na brideóg. They set out to look for it. When they came to the crossroads one of them went each road, and they went on. One of them saw a light in the wood He made for the light and he went in. There was an old witch within and she sitting in front of a

Close by there lived a giant called Glendell in a castle on top of a high mountain. This giant was very cross and wicked and the people of the villages lived in mental terror of him. He used to steal their cattle and kill anybody who opposed his will.
The King’s daughters were accustomed to go for a drive in their carriage every day. One day, as they were going for a drive as usual, Glendell suddenly stood in the road before them. The horses were terrified and plunged madly on the road. This made the giant angry and he seized hold of the horses. He tore the harness from their backs and then threw horses and harness over the hedge on the roadside. He then took hold of the shafts and made his way back to his castle, drawing the carriage after him, up the mountain-side. The five Princesses were too frightened to do anything, and so were taken to the castle. They were locked into separate rooms. The giant then went to the palace to see the King. He did not waste any time but roared in a loud voice “ I have your five daughters locked up in my castle. Unless you send me five full bags of gold, your daughters will die!” The King was surely troubled for he was not a rich King and he had not so much gold to give the giant. The news spread quickly and the five brothers determined to rescue the princesses and rid the country

Long ago there lived three cruel giants. They had the king of the country that they lived in annoyed. So the king offered a great reward to anyone who would kill the giants for him. Many a one tried to kill them but the giants would murder them. One day, a man named Jack the Tailor said to the king, "if I kill the giants for you what will you give me?" "If you kill the giants for me," said the king , "You may have their beautiful palace and lands." Jack the Tailor set out one morning

When the goat was killed little one eye asked for the two kidneys and they gave them to her. And she burned them and in that spot there grew a beautiful apple tree. One day a prince was passing and he said that he would marry any girl that would pull an apple for him. The eldest girl tried to pull one for him and the second tried to pull one, but they couldnt. Then little one eye reached up and pulled one for him. So he married her and they lived happily ever afterwards. When the stepmother was eating a bit of the goat a bone got caught in her neck and she died.

without anyone seeing her. In the evening the two of them went home, while little two eye was starving with the hunger and little eye had plenty so next day they sent little three eye to see her getting her food. When the time came for the little girl to get her food the two of them sat down and little one eye began singing. "Sleep little three eye". Soon she began to fall asleep herself and she began singing sleep little three eye. "Sleep little two eye. Little three eye fell asleep but one of her eyes were open. She heard the little girl saying. "Bleat, little goat", little table arise". She saw her getting her food. She told her mother when she went home, and she ordered the goat to be killed.

There was once a woman who had three daughters. The youngest had one eye, The second had two eyes, and the eldest had three eyes. The youngest was a step-child, and the others were very unkind to her. They used to leave her out on the mountain minding goats, and when she would come home they used to give her the leavings of the other two. They thaught she would soon die but instead they remaked her getting fat and strong. So one day they sent little two eyes to see if she was getting any food. When the time for little one eye came to get her food she did not know what to do, because her sister was with her. She began singing “Sleep little two eye,” “Sleep little two eye,” The little girl got her food that day

up the animal. But the prince only pretended to tie them as he suspected some trick and threw the strands into the fire when the witch was not looking that way. Then she came up to the fire. “How dare you come into my house?” said she. “Where is the cook’s son who came in here before and never came out?” said the king’s son “What authority had he to take half my son’s kingdom and his four treasures” said the witch. “Oh, I see” said the king’s son “you are the mother of the robber giant who was made restore his robbery by the cook’s son” said the king’s son. “I am” said she and I will pay you the same.” Then she took up her magic wand to turn the king’s son into something terrible but he called to his hounds and hawk to catch her. “Tighten, tighten” said the witch to the strands of hair. “We cannot” they said for we are in the fire. The king’s son snatched the magic wand from the witch and was about to turn her into the middle of next week when she begged for mercy and promised to give him back the cook’s son safe and sound. So she told him that the strands of hair had tied up the cook’s son’s hunting pack

Long ago there lived a king who had one son only and in the palace dwelt a cook and who had another son also. The boys palled greatly together and as they grew up [to?] manhood they became great favourites.
They both resembled well so the queen had much trouble in distinguishing between them in the playground. At last the school days of the boys came to an end and they had to separate. The cook’s son had to go out into the world to seek his fortune and he had great difficulty at first in prevailing on his beloved companion to stay at home for his fortune was already made. Finally he told him to remain behind and he started out. He was some time travelling before he got employment. He was then hired at a wealthy farmer to be his milkman and herd. He worked very hard for this farmer and in time the man liked him greatly. Near this farmer’s lands was a mighty tower castle and in it dwelt a great savage, cruel, unmerciful, giant. He outwitted every other giant in the world, for he was renowned for his strength. His breath was so strong that with

John O Leary,
Gleann a Mhadra, Ballydesmond Aois 81 years gairm beatha Labourer Cár togadh é He was born in Gleann a Mhadra, but worked for the greater part in the County Cork.

In former times there lived in south Cork a big farmer. he had three daughters.In his home was a room which nobody could enter except himself. this room was always locked.
He and his wife went visiting one day, and he and he was in such a hurry going that he left the key of the room stuck in the lock. The secret of the room was a chair on which of anybody he would get whatever request he asked while on the chair. The three daughters entered the room, and aware of the secret chair they sat on it and wished. The eldest wished for the finest man in the world. The second girl wished for the next finest, and the youngest wished for The Green Bear of Orange to be her husband. They left the room, pulling the door

that night too without any supper telling him that he would have to go with the cart of chickens the next day Tom was on the road early next morning and in the same place as the other days he met the little Dwarf. The Dwarf said to Pat "I will give you this magic stick for the cart of chickens If you tell it to beat anyone it will do so." "No I wont said Pat "I was fooled twice and I wont be fooled again" It was'nt me that fooled you but it was your aunt. She has the donkey that will lay gold and the pot that will lay meat when you order them to" said the Dwarf "Go to her house now and tell her you got this stick for your cart of chickens and show her how it works When it is beating her ask her for your ass and pot and she will give them to you."
Pat took the stick left the cart of chickens with the Dwarf and set out for his aunt's house. When he reached there he done (did) just as the Dwarf told him and he got back his ass and his magic pot. On reaching his home Pat saw his mother waiting at the door for him with a

same spot as before he saw the little Dwarf and this time he had a big pot under his arm He said "Ill give you this pot for the pig. If you put it on the fire and tell it to boil any kind of dinner you like it will obey" Tom would not believe him at first, saying that he had been tricked once and would not again. But the Dwarf made a fire and put the pot on it and he said "Boil me some meat" And before Pat knew anything there was beef boiling in the pot.
He sat down and had a good meal he told the Dwarf that he could have the pig. When he came to his aunts house he told her of his good fortune. She put him to bed and when he was fast asleep she got a pot which was the same as the one Pat got from the Dwarf. And she left it in the place of Pats pot. Pat left early for home next morning and when he got there his mother asked him for the money he got for the pig Pat said "And youll see what I got in a minute" Pat put the pot on the fire and said "Boil me some meat". And then he looked into the pot but he didn't see any meat. His mother was very angry and she put him to bed.

that night too without any supper telling him that he would have to go with the cart of chickens the next day Tom was on the road early next morning and in the same place as the other days he met the little Dwarf. The Dwarf said to Pat "I will give you this magic stick for the cart of chickens If you tell it to beat anyone it will so so." "No I wont said Pat "I was fooled twice and I wont be fooled again" It was'nt me that fooled you but it was your aunt. She has the donkey that will lay gold and the pot that will lay meat when you order them to" said the Dwarf "Go to her house now and tell her you got this stick for your cart of chickens and show her how it works When it is beating her ask her for your ass and pot and she will give them to you."
Pat took the stick left the cart of chickens with the Dwarf and set out for his aunt's house. When he reached there he done (did) just as the Dwarf told him and he got back his ass and his magic pot. On reaching his home Pat saw his mother waiting at the door for him with a

same spot as before he saw the little Dwarf and this time he had a big pot under his arm He said "Ill give you this pot for the pig. If you put it on the fire and tell it to boil any kind of dinner you like it will obey" Jon would not believe him at first, saying that he had been tricked once and would not again. But the Dwarf made a fire and put the pot on it and he said "Boil me some meat" And before Pat knew anything there was beef boiling in the pot.
He sat down and had a good meal he told the Dwarf that he could have the pig. When he came to his aunts house he told her of his good fortune. She put him to bed and when he was fast asleep she got a pot which was the same as the one Pat got from the Dwarf. And she left it in the place of Pats pot. Pat left early for home next morning and when he got there his mother asked him for the money he got for the pig Pat said "And youll see what I got in a minute" Pat put the pot on the fire and said "Boil me some meat". And then he looked into the pot but he didn't see any meat. His mother was very angry and she put him to bed.

on the side of his head. The soldier asked him, why he had his hat on the side of his head. He said if he put the hat on the other side of his head he would freeze the world. The soldier told him to come along with him and they might make a living together. They [sic] four of them went along until they saw a man with his nose left against his hand. The soldier asked him why he had his hand left on the side of his nose. He said he was keeping seven windmills working. The soldier said come along with us and we might make a living together.
They went along for a while and they saw a man with his gun. He had the gun pointed up towards the sky. They asked him who he was going to shoot. He said, “I am looking at two midges fighting a hundred miles up in the air, and I want to see which of them will turn around first and I will shoot the eye out of his head. The soldier said “you must have great sight”. The man said “I haven’t very good sight”. The five of them went along after some time they came to a small town and they saw

The Soldier Coming From War
1 Thomas Rochford 2 Ballinaya, Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo 3 55 years of age 10 3rd March, 1938 There was once upon a time a soldier coming from the war, and he had to pass by a wood. When he reached the wood he saw a man near a tree, and when he came near the tree, he saw that the man had one leg tied up. The man said “if I let down my leg I would run out of the world.” The soldier said “come with me and we might make a living together.” They both went along until they came to the end of the wood. They saw there a man with his ear left on the road. They asked him why he had his ear left on the road, and he said he was listening to two rats fighting and “I want to know which of them will win.” They told him to come along with them and they might make a living together. The three of them went along together until they met a man with his (hand) hat

plack-carded up that the king had a daughter and anyone that would knock a race of her three hundred miles for a can of water, they would get her in marriage. The soldier said that he would try his luck. The next morning he went to the king’s palace and he told the king that he had men that could knock a race out of his daughter.
The two of them started for the can of water. The man who had his leg tied up met the girl going for a can of water when he was coming home with his. He sat down and fell asleep. The girl came and spilled his can of water. The man with his ear left on the road heard her spilling the water. The man with the gun flung a shot and woke up the man. The man had to go back again for a can of water, after the girl. Then the man with his ear left on the road heard her coming a hundred miles away. The man with his finger left on his nose blew her back a hundred miles, and the man won the race.

along and did the same thing to the bull and then met the stallion and he caught the old mare by the neck before the boy hit him with the rod. After the boy hit him with the rod he fell dead. Now said the old mare we have another thing to do. When we are about another mile I will fall dead and before we reach that mile I must tell you what to do. You will have to get a bottle in some house and near that house there is a well and you will [fill] your bottle with water and when I fall dead you take the saddle and bridle off me. Go the house and get the bottle and do what I told you. Then you will walk in and you will see a big crowd all around it. There are three barrels with boiling tar in them. There is a girl tied up in ropes and hundreds of men waiting there, they have to jump into these barrels of tar and none will come free before I can be free. The old mare fell dead and the boy went for the bottle of water and went to the place where the crowd was. He got there and he saw what happened the first man that went into the barrel of boiling tar and got burned. When that happened many of them, the rest of them would not chance it. The lad tork down his bridle and saddle and said I will go through it and free the lady. He took some of the water, jumped into the first barrel and came out again the same to the second and to the third. He walked back over and took the ropes off of the lady and set her free. Her father walked over and took him by the

the same old mare and she was as thin and as hungry looking as the year before. Will you kill the foals and give me the milk she said. Well said the lad I gave you the milk last year and you are as bad this year as you were last year. But as you asked me I will do it. He killed the foals and gave her the milk and went away for the same holiday as the time before. He came back in a year’s time and found the same thing as usual. The old mare was as thin and as hungry as ever. So she said will you do the same thing this year. Well said the lad I gave you the milk last year and the year before and you are just as bad as the year I met you. You are as hungry and as thin as ever. Well said the mare its hard enough for me, but if you give me the milk this year I would be better. Go up to the old stable and you will find an old saddle and bridle. He went and got them and put them on the old mare. Now said she get up on my back now she said you have to be a good jock. Come along and I will get a stick for you. The went along and jumped the first wall and got a stick. Now said she we have these animals to meet. The first is a wild boar and the second is a mad bull and the third is a stallion. I am supposed to fight them First of all I will meet the boar and if you hit him with the rod I gave you he will fall dead. They met the boar and the boy did what he was told. They went

had to get a candle when he was feeding the horse. One night when he was walking the road. He saw something shining on the road. He picked it up and found it was a rib of hair. He put it in a little box for several weeks and they wondered why he didn’t need a light for feeding the horses. This night his master stole out on him and he found that he had a light of his own. He asked him where he found it and he told him he found it on the road. His master told him that it was a rib of hair of the queen of the lonely valley. Well my man, said the master you are a lucky man. Next day he said to his master I will go home to see my father and brothers. He started off on the journey. He got home after a few days but when he got there there was no home. The palace was not there and all that was there was the walls knocked and nettles growing inside. He walked around the place and could see nobody. He went on to the park at the back of the house. He saw their twelve mares that had twelve foals. He walked down the park and met there an old mare that was thin and hungry looking. Well said the mare would you do me a good turn. Well said the boy what do you want. Will you kill the twelve foals and give me the milk and help me to go through the hard winter. Very well said the lad I am going for a year and I will see you when I come back. He came back in a year and found the mare and foals in the same field. He walked down the field and he met

have come a great distance nobody knew him." The third day he went up to the giant's castle and got a new horse and a different suit of grand clothes and came down to the edge of the pond where the gentleman's daughter was sitting on a chair waiting for the fiery dragon. The boy got down off of the horse and he was talking to the girl and he put his head down in her lap. She cut off a lock of his hair and put it in her bosom. The when he was on horseback again the fiery dragon appeared in the water and the boy and the horse went out in the water to meet him and they fought and the boy killed him. And then everyone was glad but he told them dry the pond and they had some way to do it and there were two young fiery dragons in the mud in it and the boy killed them and then he galloped off and put up his horse and took off his grand clothes. That night when he brought home the cows he was very tired and when he went into his supper he fell asleep at the table and the girl he saved came in and she knew who he was by the lock of his hair she had cut off. When her father came in after looking after the cows, she told him who the boy was and how she'd marry nobody [correction: would not marry anybody] else but him. The gentleman was satisfied and he told her how he found the dead giants and the boy said how all the giants' castle and land and money was his. The boy and the girl got married and lived very happy ever after " and if they

have come a great distance nobody knew him." The third day he went up to the giant's castle and got a new horse and a different suit of grand clothes and came down to the edge of the pond where the gentleman's daughter was sitting on a chair waiting for the fiery dragon. The boy got down off of the horse and he was talking to the girl and he put his head down in her lap. She cut off a lock of his hair and put it in her bosom. The when he was on horseback again the fiery dragon appeared in the water and the boy and the horse went out in the water to meet him and they fought and the boy killed him. And then everyone was glad but he told them dry the pond and they had some way to do it and there were two young fiery dragons in the mud in it and the boy killed them and then he galloped off and put up his horse and took off his grand clothes. That night when he brought home the cows he was very tired and when he went into his supper he fell asleep at the table and the girl he saved came in and she knew who he was by the lock of his hair she had cut off. When her father came in after looking after the cows, she told him who the boy was and how she'd marry nobody [correction: would not marry anybody] else but him. The gentleman was satisfied and he told her how he found the dead giants and the boy said how all the guards castle and land and money was his. The boy and the girl got married and lived very happy ever after " and if they

days until the dragon would come for her. When the first day came for her to sit beside the pond the people collected from far and near and the boy drove out his cow to the grazing. He went up to the giant's castle and he got a horse and bridle and saddle and he put a grand suit of clothes on himself and he rode down to the edge of the pond where the poor girl was sitting on the chair and all the people up on the hill looking on. Nobody knew who the boy was. He wasn't long there till the fiery dragon put up his head in the pond and began to come in for the girl. The boy went in to the water and the horse put his feet down on the feet of the dragon and there was terrible splashing in the water but in the end the boy killed him. He galloped off then and said nothing to anyone. That night when he brought home the cows there was great talk about the first day's fight and about what was going to happen tomorrow. the next day the girl had to go down again to the pond and when the boy had the cows in the grass he ran off to the giants castle and got another horse and other suit of clothes and came down to where the girl was sitting. He fought the second fiery dragon again and killed him and the galloped off without saying anything to anyone. When he brought home the cows that night he met the gentleman and he asked him "How did ye get on today" and the gentleman said they got on well but "there's another day to go." "There will be as good a man there tomorrow as today" said the boy "I fear it" says the gentleman" for the boy must

said he did. The giant got mad and was drawing away the cows when the boy asked him to fight. The giant put up one finger and said he could fight the boy with that. They fought anyway and the boy killed the giant with the strip of skin and dragged his body over to the gap so that the cows feet wouldn't be hurt going back over the stones. The day after the boy drove out the cows again and the second giant came down and they fought and the boy killed him and dragged his body over to the gap. The third day the giant's mother came to him in the form of a cat and he said to her that if she came to him in the form of the devil that he would kill her all the same. He was going her kill her then and she begged of him not to and sh would give hum all she had. She took hum up to the castle and she showed hum rooms full of horses and gold and riches of all kinds and when he was coming down the stairs she thought to shove him into a big wheel that was turning, he he held on and struck her with the strip of skin from the white cow and killed her. He drew her down to where he put the other giants to make the passage for the cows and left her there.
There was a big pond near the gentleman's place and there was a fiery dragon in it and every year the nicest girl in the place used have to be given to him. She used have to be put sitting on a chair beside the pond till the dragon would come for her. This year it was the rich gentleman's daughter that was going to be taken by the fiery dragon and she'd have to sit near the pond for three

horn of the white cow. The next thing was that the step-mother got very sick. She pretended she was going to die and she sent for the husband and she said nothing would pare? her new life but to eat the white cow's beef. The husband didn't want to kill the cow because he knew she was great friends with his son, but the wife was at him to save her life and so he gave orders to the men to kill the white cow. The white cow knew what was going to happen and told the boy to get a belt of her skin from her right ear to her right heel and that he'd never want a friend while he had it. The boy was crying but the man came and his father wanted to hunt him away while they were killing the cow, but the boy wouldn't go and when they had her killed the men gave him a strip of her skin from her right ear to her right heel. The boy then went away and went to work with a rich gentleman. The man put him mending cows in land near a castle where three giants lived. One of these was the mother and the other two were her two sons. There was a bargain between the gentleman and the giants that if the cows of any of them went trespassing into the lands of the other that he would keel their. The first day the boy was near the giants place he say that the grass was a lot better there than in the gentleman's place, so he knocked the wall between the two places with a blow of the strap of the white cow's skin and turned in the cows. The Giant came down and asked how who turned in the cows and the boy

there is somebody else feeding him. You must find out tomorrow what's making him big and strong." The white cow knew this and she told the little boy when the The girl would come with the dinner to say "Sleep one eye" for the girl had only one eye. The little boy did so the one eye fell asleep and then the boy took off the white cow's right horn and ate and drank enough . One-eye went home and told her mother that she knew nothing and the mother said "Ill send you, Two-eyes, tomorrow and you must find out what's making him big and strong." The white cow knew again about the second sister who had two eyes and told the boy to say "sleep Two-eyes" when she'd bring the dinner. The boy did so and two-eyes slept and then he took off the cow's right horn and ate and drank enough. Two-eyes went home and told her mother she saw nothing and the mother said "Ill send you, Three-eyes tomorrow and you must find out what's making him fat and strong" Three-eyes was the third sister and she had three eyes. The white cow knew about it and she told the boy to say "sleep three-eyes" when the girl would come with the dinner. When she came the little boy said "Sleep one eye, sleep two-eyes" but he forgot to say "sleep three eyes" and he took off the cow's horn and ate and drank enough, but the third eye was awake and saw all that happened. When Three-eyes went home she told her mother that twas no wonder the boy would be strong and the grand dinner he got out of the

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that the central figure in it was Cró-tára-thor-nakthor. I now give the sound of the word as I remember it and as I believe he gave it to me, the vowels having English values. I know that the villain in the story was held firmly in the cleft of a Tree and that each morning as the hero passed him by, the prisoner begged to cut him down and to let him free. The hero's reply, as well as I remember, inspired by a princess, was always the same: 'It wasn't your good actions put you up there,' and that phrase and the name I recall as being literally the same as used by my shanachie. Crohara is probably Conchubhair but I do not know. My brother, who died some sixteen years ago in America, was about thirteen years of age at the time, or perhaps a little more, and I believe had heard the stories locally, though from whom I have no idea (Tiob. Ár.)

Continued from page 740]dealt with on Cro-hara-thor-nakthor, I think now that an integral part of that story was that the giant's heart was in a pigeon's egg which had not been laid, and that in order to kill the giant the pigeon with its egg had first to be destroyed. I heard these stories under unfortunate circumstances because (when they were being told me) I was wracked between the mental anxiety to listen to and retain them and the physical desire for sleep. Under the new stimulus inspired by the collection of the local traditions of every shade I have been able to resurrect from my own memory, only fragments unfortunately, of what, no matter how great my attention, I only half heard.

that I got the following tale from Micheál O hArtagáin which story because of the likeness in incident between itself and the story I heard with the brown bull figuring in it is probably the one I heard with some variations brought in. Here it is as given me by M O hArtagáin who though slow to learn in school has a wealth of all manner of tradition memorized without effort. His mother's a native of Tedamore Parish is they narrator and the boy's ability to relate the same story, in the same words, at rather long intervals, is astonishing:
There was a rich gentleman one time and his wife and they had on little boy. The woman died and after a time the man married again. The new woman had three daughters of her own and it wasn't long until she had began to hate the little boy and to try to turn his father against him. She wanted to starve him and every day when the little boy would be going to school, she used send one of her daughters with a little bit of bad food for him. They little boy used have to mind the cows when he wouldn't be at school and there was a white cow there who was a great friend of his. She used to put him up not to eat the bad dinner at all but to pretend to, and then to take off her right horn and he'd get the finest and grandest dinner you could sit down to. this was going on for a time and one day the old stepmother asked her daughter how was the little boy looking "Oh he's big and fat and strong" says the daughter. "If he is then says the stepmother

[Written down by Liam de Fhionn, Uarán Mór, Co. na Gallimhe. Story told to him by Pádraig Ó Cuimín, Gleann na Sgál, Uarán Mór, who heard the story from Mícheál Ó Hailpín [?] of Moneymore. The latter was aged 75 years when he told the story.]
In Ireland long ago there lived a King that had twelve sons. He wondered what he would do with them. One day as he was walking on the bank of a river he saw a wildduck with twelve young ones. She was driving one of them away. The King went home and went to his palace and came out and stood at the door. His sons were playing hurling. He called them one by one. When the last son came to the door he shut up the up the door and told him to go away. The young lad went away and walked the road for many a day. He met with a man who gave him a job feeding horses. The poor lad had to sleep with the horses. He worked with that man for many years. Each night he

[Written down by Liam de Fhionn, Marán Mór, Co. na Gallimhe. Story told to him by Pádraig Ó Cuimín, Gleann na Sgál, Marán Mór, who heard teh story from Mícheál Ó ?Hailpín of Moneymore. The latter was aged 75 years when he told the story.]
In Ireland long ago there lived a King that had twelve sons. He wondered what he would do with them. One day as he was walking on the bank of a river he saw a wildduck with twelve young ones. She was driving one of them away. The King went home and went to his palace and came out and stood at the door. His sons were playing hurling. He called them one by one. When the last son came to the door he shut up the up the door and told him to go away. The young lad went away and walked the road for many a day. He met with a man who gave him a job feeding horses. The poor lad had to sleep with the horses. He worked with that man for many years. Each night he

the crucifixion, they found the they had forgotten the nails. Without losing any time they sent a messenger to the village smith asking him to make the nails. The smith refused and said he would have no hand, act or part in the crucifixion. The messenger came away downhearted. On the way he met a crowd of tinkers and told themes trouble. Don't worry said one of them. I'll make the nails. The tinker made the nails but from that day out it was misfortune after misfortune for the tinker, who had to wander the roads with the sky for a roof. The blacksmith had good luck for refusing to make the nails and that good luck is still with him.

the children were, and cut the heads off the children without caps, for he thought they were the boys. The woman got the breakfast, and the giant went away hunting in the woods. The woman left the boys get up for she thought they were the girls. When they went out, they ran home. When the giant came and saw it was his daughters he killed he was sad for what he had done. When the children reached home, they told their story to their parents who were very sad for leaving their children wander in the woods by themselves, where they could be eaten by the wild animals.

Once upon a time there lived a poor woman. She had one son. He was very lazy, and he spent most of the day sitting in the ashes. After that he was called ashie-pet. Every night he went out and would not come back until it was late. This night as he was out he came to a stable. He went in and saw there was nothing in it but there were were chains in one of the corners. It was very dark and ashie-pie could not see where he was going. When he was some time walking about the stable he hit the chains with his shoe. No sooner has the chains stopped dinging than ashie-pet heard a door opening. About five minutes after-wards the door of the stable was opened and in came a witch. She tried to catch ashie-pet but he got away from her. He got out of the stable and ran away. When the witch had gone into the house, ashie-pet climbed the house and sat on the chimney. This witch had three daughter's and ashie-pet heard every word that was said below. One of the daughter's said she was very hungry. The witch told her to put down the pot for the stirabout and that if she did not eat it all she would kill her. When the stirabout was ready to be eaten the girl could not eat it because

"Well my lad your dead at last and its no loss". When she opened the bag she saw that the calf, cat, and dog were dead and that her delph were broken. Then she knew that ashie-pet had played a trick on her.
This story was told by James Cornyn.

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"Dia is Mhuire dhuit a Sheain" arsa an capall.
"Dia is Mhuire duit is Padraig" responded Sean. "Tis a hard time you have with old farmer Grimes". "I have indeed"said Sean. "Why did you not go to see the Princess" "Sure the whole world is gone". "Old Grimes would not hear of my going". "Would you like to go." "I should like very much." "Very well, I shall bring you" said the horse. "But first go to the bath room, have a good wash and in a large press in the next room you will get a suit of clothes and when you are dressed come back to me." After quarter of an hour's absence a transformed boy came back. His own mother would scarcely recognise him, he looked so handsome, dignified and proud in his new suit. "You look fine" said the horse, "now in that press there, nodding at one in the corner, "take out your helmet and sword." Jack donned both articles and you would think he was colonel in the King's army, he had such a military bearing. "Now, said the horse, "get up on my back." Jack harnessed the beautiful black horse and when

There was once a Merchant who had three daughters one was nice and the other two ugly. One day when the merchant was going on holidays he asked his three daughters what presents he would bring them. One of the ugly ones said a long necklace, the other ugly one said a tea-set and the nice one said a red rose. When the merchant was coming home he couldn't get the roses. On his way home he saw a rose

A Story - Red RidinghoodOnce upon a time there lived a little girl called Red Ridinghood.
Her grandmother was sick and her mother sent her with some food to her, and she told her not to speak to anyone on her way. She went along however and it was not long until she met a wolf. He asked her where she was going and she said that she was going to see her grandmother who was sick. The wolf said 'All right" and went away. He ran as quickly as he could and he reached the house before her, and he went into the room and ate the grandmother. He then put on her hat and coat and went into the bed. When Red Ridinghood arrived she knocked at the door and the wolf said "Lift the catch and walk in. She did so and

A "Story of Bluebeard", in traditional style, but minus much of its details, was given me by Sean Rua O'Coileain, Dalta scoile. His narrator was Mary Murphy, 28 years, Cailin aimsire, a native of Dromtarsna, Abbeyfeale parish. "Her father told her the story and he has a lot more of them; 'twas his grandmother told him the stories". Mr. Murphy plays music at the dance halls".
Synopsis: Girl married man in big house. After some time she wished to go back to see her grandmother. Man says he has to go on a journey, but on his return she may go conditionally. She must feed daily in his absence a very large black cat. Do other general work, and refrain from unlocking a certain door. She does well for a time, but finally fails by opening forbidden door. In the room is something covered with a cloth, which being removed reveals a headless trunk. Frightened girl drops key in bucket of blood, stain not washable. Man arrives, beheads girl.(The version is incomplete and imperfect, but I give it as I got it. D.O.C.)

Once upon a time there lived in a little hut three brothers and each one of them had a hound a hawk and a horse. One morning one of them saw a hare up on the window. He said he would follow the hare and he told his brother if the well near the house was read the boy was dead.
He started on his journey. He carried with him the horse, hound and hawk to be his safeguard. At last he came to a little hut on the side of the hill. He entered inside it for shelter and leaving the horse, hound and hawk outside the door. He fell fast asleep. When he woke he saw a woman outside the door looking for shelter. He told her to go inside. She said the horse would kick her. She gave him ribs from her head and he tied them. She went in and began to murder him. He exclaimed "Horse horse come and kick her," She said "rib rib hold fast". She murdered him and the animals. Next morning the well was read and the hare came to the window again.

Long long ago a hunter lived in Loughmask. He had three sons who were also hunters. One day the eldest son was out hunting. He saw a hare in the wood and followed it until he came as far as the fort. The hunter looked in and saw an old house built in the middle. When he looked in the window he saw an old woman inside by the fire. He went in and she told him to sit down and leave his house and hounds behind the door.
When he had done this she took down a rod from behind the rafter, hit him with it and changed him into a green stone. She did the same to his house and hounds. The next day the other brother came out and the hare ran out before him, so he followed it until he came to the fort. Then he looked in and saw the woman by the fire. She told him to sit down and tie up his horse and his hounds. He put up the horse and hounds, but did not tie them and he sat down.

There was once a king who had two sons. Every morning when he went to wash himself a hare came up to him and stood looking at him until he was finished.
This continued for some time, until at last the kind told one of his sons to saddle his horse, and get his hound, and to follow the hare, but could not catch him. When it was near nightfall he found himself in a lonely desolate place. Suddenly his saw a light in the distance and went towards it expecting to find lodgings for the night. When he went into the house he saw a little woman sitting at the fire. He asked her if she would keep him for the night, and she said she would and welcome. He then asked her for rope to tie his hound and his horse. She put her hand to her head and pulled a rib of hair out of it and it turned into a rope. When he came in after tying the horse, the little woman had two legs of mutton boiling in the pot. When the meat

A soldier said to him "hurry on" Our Lord said "I go but thou shall wait till I return". That man that Our Lord said that to is alive still. He is called the wandering Jew. When he comes to 120 he falls into a deep sleep and comes back to the age that he was when they were crucifying Our Lord. He is still alive. When Our Lord was small he used to go up on to the roof of the house with other children to play. They used to make mud pies and mud birds. The birds that Our Lord made were able to fly. But the other children's birds were not.
When Our Lord was going to Mount Calvary, he was coming near this house. In the house lived a girl

finishes first with all beds done is the winner. We often shout at another girl when she gets as far as one of us "Up to me, up to me never go past me" and then ; "Past me, Past me Never go further".
Before Playing hunting or other games when we want to select a girl for "the mother" or "to hunt" or "to Seek" in Hide and Seek we reckon first. We have rhymes for this + whatever girl the last word falls on. She is the one to hunt etc. "Hide, seek, round the rick And sheep's head on Sunday"Ena meena mina mo Catch a [...] by the toe If he squeals let him go Ena Mena Mina + Mo. One, two, three, four, five six seven All good children go to Heaven Penny on the water a penny on the sea Halfpenny on the railway and out goes she. Ickle ockle black bockle Ickle ockle out.

Uncle Day I took off his cap and sucked his blood and left his body easy
A bottle of whiskey. 10 As I went over yonder hill I met my Uncle Dairy. With timber toes and iron nose, upon my word he'd scare the crows. A gun. 11 As I went over yonder wall, I heard a red man give a call his head was flesh, his mouth was bone and such a man was never born A Rooster. Sara Jones. Aghafin Roslea. 12 Patches upon patches without any stitches, Riddle me that and I'll buy you a pair of breeches. Answer A cabbage 13 What is the shyest thing in the world? Answer A clock because it keeps its hands over its face. 14 Why is the back of a clock lazy Answer. Because it is always behind time. 15 A wee lazy mother and a long black father twelve little children as black as ... [slur] Answer A Clock. Gerald McCoey, Mullinacloy

No 1. God made the negroes,
He made them in the night, He made them in a hurry, And forgot to make them white. No 2. Ten little ... [slur] boys going out to dine, One of them got lost, Then there were but nine, Nine little ... [slur] boys went out too late, A bogey man caught one, Then there were but eight. Eight little... [slur] all down out of heaven, One of them was killed and then there were but seven. Seven little ... [slur] boys went out to gather sticks, The man-in-the-moon took one. And then there were but six. Six little ... [slur] boys all went out to dive. One of them got drowned and then there were but five. Five little ... [slur] lying on the floor One of them broke his scull and

crooked crab tree.Tickle tackle to Blacksmith
are you within Yes Sir, I am. Will you set a shoe. Yes and an nail too. An nail here, an nail there Tickle tackle too. Niney, Niny Nany, Noe. Catch a ... [slur] by the toe. If he screethes let him go, Niney, Niny, Nany, Noe.

In our farm there are many animals the most common are cows and horses. there are special names on some cows for instance, Spinc, Branac, Riach and ... [slur].
The name of a cowhouse in this locality is Bothán na mbó. Dry rushes, straw, hay, and turf dust is used as fodder for cattle. Cows are tied to stalls, and in some places to big flat flags standing up right with chains often off them. They are tied round the neck. Ceangal is the name of a tying in a certain byre. Many articles are hung up in byres for luck such as St. Brigid's Cross, a wooden cross, a blessed Benedict Medal, and a horse shoe covered with silver paper. When a cow dies of a disease the Benedict medal is buried with it. Three drops of milk are spilled into the fire to ensure a plentifulness of milk the whole year round. Slits are put on young calves' ears to prevent blackquarter. When a young calf is born his head is put into a house before his tail.

then there were but four.
Four little ... [slur] going to a spree, One of them got drunk, Then there were but three. Three little ... [slur] all saying 'woo-hoo' One of them fell dead and then there were but two. Two little ... [slur] boys eating a bun. One of ate too much and then there was but one. One little ... [slur] boy thinking of some fun, He just closed his eyes and then there was none. No 3. Auntie Judy had a cat, That was very fond of snails, Every time she caught a mouse, She caught him by the tail. No 4. Mary, Mary quite contrary, Sitting on a stool in the dairy, Mixing butter for a fairy, How does your garden grow.

A fifth rhyme is: -
" I know a ... [slur] Boy and his double jointed. I gave him a kiss and he got disappointed. I gave thim another, to match the other. Ha, ha, (and here the name of a girl is mentioned) I'll tell your mother. Kissing a ... [slur] Boy down by the river" How many did you give him? (one, two, three, etc, until the skipper stops.) There is still more fun when we try to find out the profession of the man we will marry by saying the following rhymes:- "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Sailor, Richman, Poorman, Beggarman, Blindman, Thief." To find out what we will be married in:- "Silk, Satin, Cotton, Muslin, Rags." There are many others such as, what will we wear? What kind of house will we live in? What vehicle will we go in? What will we wear on our feet. What will we wear on our feet. What kind of a cake will we have. What year and day we will be married on. At whatever name we chance to stop, that is the person we will be married to or the material we will be dressed in an son on. This is another game, that the more playing

When they cast a light on him he suddenly disappeared.
Local tradition says that the quarry is haunted and that a ... [slur] was seen to appear there a few years ago when some one passing there uttered a curse, (the man) He appeared in front of him when he said the curse but disappeared quickly when the man made the sign of the cross.

Christ came to him alone
What ails thee Peter and makes thee shake? O! my Lord and Savour, I have the toothache Whoever says this prayer three times for my sake Shall never again have the toothache.For toothache also, put ginger into the tooth. Bleeding from the nose: Lie back and place a stone at the back of the neck. For a Bealding (?) or (Stone Bruise) Cut up a black snail and put it to it. Warts- Go to a field where there are big stones. If you find water in a hole in them dip your fingers into it and the warts will fall off or If you get a black snail without looking for it and rub it to them they will disappear.

46. Eena Meena Myna Mo.
Catch the cricket by the toe. When he screeches let him go Eena Meena myna Mo.47. The man who made it never wore it and the man who wore it never saw it. Fr. A coffin 48. There is a table in the meadow that never grew It is neither ash nor oak nor elm nor you. Fr. A sheer of lee. 49. How many cows tails would reach the moon? Fr. One if it were long enough/ 50. I have a roomful and cannot give a spoonful. Fr. Smoke 51. It's in a rock and not in a stone It' in the marrow and not in the bone It's in the priest but not the steeple. It's in the church but not in the people. Fr. The letter R.

Tig
I Any number of children form a line. A child is selected to give out "the tig". The following are rhymes used when giving out "the tig". I Iccle, eaccle, blue bottle, Iccle, eaccle out. II Emmie, Ammie, Immie Oh, Catch a by the toe, If she squeals let her go, Emmie, Ammie, Immie Oh. The child whom the last word falls upon has the "Tig". Then the rest of the children run away from the child who has the "tig". She follows the children and tries to tip one of them. Whoever she tips first has the tig. Then she runs off with the rest of the children and the child who has the tig runs after them and so on.Beds II Any number can play this game. Four lines are marked out in the form of a rectangle where there is plenty of bare earth. This rectangle is divided into a number of equal parts, each part being

One two three
Mother caught a bee Bee died Mother cried Out goes she Up a ladder Down a wall A penny loaf to feed us all A bit for you A bit for me A bit for all the family.Inny minny myne mo catch a [slur] by the toe If he hollers let him go Inny minny myne mo Eel a veel a vick Fifty call a kick Fifty call a sugar ball Eel a veel a vick

go into the mansion and get his supper. Lord Tirawley went in and got his supper and then he went to bed. He was up very early next morning and the Black Squire gave him his breakfast. Then he showed him a stable which was not cleaned out for seven years and told him to have it cleaned out when he would return.
Lord Tirawley took the graip to clean out the stable but when he had one graipfull thrown out seven were thrown in and he could not get the better of cleaning it out. Then he sat down and began to cry. After a while he saw the same girl coming and she took a little gold graip out of her pocket and with one little graip-full all the stable was cleaned out and then she disappeared. After a while the Black Squire came and when he saw the barn cleaned out he was very angry and he knew that some one must be doing the work for Lord Tirawley and he tried another act to kill him. The next day he told him to have a young mare (caa) caught and

The Giant told the servant girl to bring in a good meal. When she arrived with the meal she laid out a good table for them. When the supper was over the giant gave Lord Tirawley a good bed to sleep on. When morning came Lord Tirawley got up very early and the giant gave him a good breakfast.
Then the giant took him to a mountain and he took a trumpet and blew into it. After a while they saw coming towards them two great eagles. When they arrived the giants asked them if they knew where the Black Squire’s Garden was and they said that they did. Then Lord Tirawley went riding on one of their backs and off they went. The birds flew so fast that he did not know where he was going. At last they came to a big garden which was surrounded by high walls. The eagles left him in the garden and off they flew again. Lord Tirawley was very much excited when he found where he was. He saw a great building at the end of the garden. He went as far as the building and saw a big man

and her three sons at the bottom of the sea. One day she asked the merrmaid could herself and her son go out to the king's lawn to play ball. She came in to the man of the boiler and asked him could she warm her hands. He said she could. She asked him were the fingers shedding honey was the bird singing and was the king happy because every time she used to sit at table her fingers used to shed honey. Then the man of the boiler told the king. Next day when she came the king was there before her and he said the fingers do not shed honey the bird does not sing or I am not happy and Frosty-face said these are my three son's and I am your wife. They were delayed this time and the king's son went to the ocean along with them. The merrmaid was at the brink of the ocean watching them to come. the king begged of her to give him back his wife and three sons. He said he would if he would give her one for one and one to the good. He went home for the fair haired girl the brown haired girl and her two son's and their mother and threw them into the sea, and brought Frosty-face and her three sons home and they lived happily. Then the fingers shed the honey, the bird began to sing and the king was happy.

they are now in two rocks outside a witch's door, and you will come to the very same place to night. She will ask you to stay and mind herself three days and three nights without falling asleep. He then gave her a little ring and every you feel sleepy look through this ring and you will be fresh again. The fourth night the witch will fall asleep take the magic wand from under her chair and strike her with it and change her into a rock and leave her there. Then go outside the door strike the rocks until you find your two sisters but if you take my advice you will leave them where they are. She went outside rose them up and they both went home and the sisters were worse than ever to her. When Sunday came all of them went to Mass but they would not let frosty-face got. They left her within and told her to have everything done when they would come home. As soon as she got them gone she did everything went into the the room and looked the other side of the ring and she was dressed in a most beautiful suit and ran to Mass as fast as she could and all the people was admiring the beautiful princess that they had seen. And as soon as Mass was over she ran home as fast as

an old witch within rocking in an arm chair. She asked what was her business here. She told her she was in seek of service. She said "wait here and take care of me three nights and three days without falling asleep" an d she promised she would. She watched her two days and two nights but on the third night she fell asleep. The old witch got her magic wand changed her into a rock and rolled her outside the door. Twelve months passed away but she did not return, so the brown haired girl said it was her turn to go. She went the same route as her sister and the very same thing happened to her. They were changed into a rock outside the witch's. Two years and two days passed away but neither of them returned and frostyface said it was her own turn to go. She got her mother's blessing and the said "If I be alive in twelve months and a day I'll be back here again" She went on the same route as her two sisters. She came to the well of honey and she sat down to eat her lunch and the little dog came and asked her if she had any bread to share. She said she had plenty and she gave him half the cake. "You are not like your two sisters he said. They came here to this very place and they did not even give me a crumb" but

Then the witch said “I have you” and she took down the bag. The cat and the dog were all cream and the jug was broken, by that time Hairy had the steed gone and he went back to the king with the steed. The girls said Hairy to be burned in a barrel of tar . He was burned and out walked a man out of the fire and he married the princess and they lived happily ever after.

the sword of light. But the king thought he would never come back again. The king lived happily for a while and the girls wanted to get rid of Hairy again. The king said he must go to the witch and bring the white steed of bells from the knight of the glen and off he went and he went into the stable where the steed was and as soon as the steed saw him she shook herself all over and out came the witch and she caught him by the neck and brought him in and said “what would you do to me if I did that to you?”. “I would put you into a bag and I would get a stick and I would lash you until you mewed like a cat and barked like a dog and until your blood turned into cream, that is what I would do to you”. She put him into a bag and hang you up on the kitchen ceiling and out she went and cut a bundle of sticks and when Hairy got her gone out he got out of the bag and put the cat and the dog and a jug of cream inside and he hid outside. The witch came in and she began to lash the bag and the cat got a lash and he screamed and the dog got a lash and he barked and she gave a lash to the jug and it broke and the cream spilled.

the sword of light. But the king thought he would never come back again. The king lived happily for a while and the girls wanted to get rid of Hairy again. The king said he must go to the witch and bring the white steed of bells from the knight of the glen and off he went and he went into the stable where the steed was and as soon as the steed saw him she shook herself all over and out came the witch and she caught him by the neck and brought him in and said “what would you do to me if I did that to you?”. “I would put you into a bag and I would get a stick and I would lash you until you mewed like a cat and barked like a dog and until your blood turned into cream, that is what I would do to you”. She put him into a bag and hang you up on the kitchen ceiling and out she went and cut a bundle of sticks and when Hairy got her gone out he got out of the bag and put the cat and he hid outside. The witch came in and she began to lash the bag and the cat got a lash and he screamed and the dog got a lash and he barked and she gave a lash to the jug and it broke and the cream spilled.

caps on the two girls and she put three crowns on her own daughters' heads so that she would know them. She then went to bed. When they were all in bed Hairy got up and took the crowns off the witches daughters and put them on his own sisters and then the night caps off his sisters and put them on the other girls. After a while the old witch got up and cut the heads of the girls that had the night caps on and it was her own daughters. She then went to bed. When she was asleep again Hairy got up and told his two sisters to put on their clothes and they went out through the window and brought the wand. There was a river outside the house and Hairy struck the river with the wand and a bridge appeared. Soon the old witch was after them and Hairy struck the bridge and the river appeared again. The witch said “you stole my wand”. “I did me’am”. “You killed my three daughters”. “I did not ma’am, you killed them yourself”. “Will you ever come back again?”. “I might ma’am once more”, and they went off until they came to a king’s house. They asked for work, the two girls got work, but he said “I have no work for you Hairy”. Hairy said “I can stop the cat and the dog from fighting”. “All right” said the King, “I’ll

another while she had a son and he was like a dog. The husband was going to kill it, but the woman said not to. He used to be in a corner on a bag. After a while they went to school and the name they gave him was Hairy because there was an inch of hair on him. When they were going to school the other girls used to be calling names to the two sisters because of the brother they had at home. At last the older girl said she would go away and she said to her father, “give me what you have to give me” and the second girl said the same thing and they went off together. After a while Hairy got up. “Father”, said Hairy, give me what you have to give me and I am going away. Be down out of that said the father. Off went Hairy and one of the girls looked around and she said; “do you know who is coming?”. “Who?” said the other girl. “Hairy, what will we do?”. “We'll pass him off as a lapdog” and they walked on until they came to an old witches house and they knocked at the door and she came out and she said, “well Hairy how are you getting on?”. “Well ma'am” said Hairy. Come in said she and gave them a good supper and put them to bed and she put night-

and the blood stuck to her foot. She came out to take off the blood and she scrubbed and rubbed and washed it and yet she could'nt get it off, so she took her bread and milk and went out to the garden to eat her lunch and sitting under a tree a little robin came along and said "My dear if you let me pick all the crumbs that fall from your mouth I'll pick half the blood off your foot" "Go along you unsignified little animal how could you do anything that failed myself," and the little robin went away. Then a cat came around and said "My dear lady if you let me lick all the milk that fall from your mouth I'll lick half the blood off your foot" and she said the same to him as she did to the robin. When the King came home in three days time he asked her did she go in and she said she did'nt. "Are you sure "I am" she said. Then he said "Show me your feet and she showed them to him and he saw the blood and he killed her and hung her up. This happened the three girls but the youngest one let the robin pick off one half of the blood and the cat the other half. and when the

129house with Jack's mother for quite a while, and she died and they went to London where they had two in family and lived very happily.
Mrs Lizze Galligher Drumcollagan, Mohill Co. Leitrim Aged 59

with the sand?" Hawk- "To sharpen knives." Mother- "what do you want with the knives"? Hawk- "To cut the heads of your children." Mother- "Where are they?" (Mother)-Hawk- "Behind your back." Then begins the struggle. The hawk tries to catch the chicks and the mother tries to save them. According as the hawk catches one it drops out.
Nuts in May is played by the children forming two rows facing each other. One row advances to meet the other and then returns singing- "Here we come gathering Nuts in May, nuts in May, nuts in May, here we come gathering nuts in May on a fine and frosty morning". The other row advances then and returns singing- "Whom will you have for nuts in May- nuts in May, nuts in May, whom will you have for nuts in May on a fine and frosty morning. The other row advances once again singing the name of some child in the opposite row.

the arms of the two forming the bridge and asked which of the two selected articles she'd prefer. When she names her preference she takes her place behind the one whose articles she selected. The game re-starts + the same thing happens while all the children in the line have chosen an article and are lined up behind the other two. They then follow each other round the yard.
What boy is there who doesn't enjoy a game of "leap frog". All the boys sit down with their hands on the ground. The last boy in the row jumps across them and according as he jumps over one boy the latter rises and jumps over the next and so on. When the first boy reaches the top he steps down and waits while a boy jumps over him and so on. These are all the games we play at school.

while she comes out to the ring. Children form a ring to play "Off to the Butcher's Shop I go" and sing-
"Off to the Butcher's Shop I go, I cannot stay any longer, For if I do, my mother will say Play with the girls in the corner." One child goes out and taps some-one on the back and says: "He-hi ho my (naming child) he-hi-ho, hit her a kick and send her off for she's the butcher's daughter." She repeats this until she has touched all the children in the ring. A popular game with girls is- "How many miles to Barley Bridge?" Two children select two different articles and they hold up their joined hands to form a bridge. The others get into a line and march, one behind the other,under the bridge singing.. "How many miles to Barley Bridge." Four score ten, I'll be there with candle light Yes, indeed, and back again." The last child to pass is caught between

with the sand?" Hawk- "To sharpen knives." Mother- "what do you want with the knives"? Hawk- "To cut the heads of your children." Mother- "Where are they?" (Mother)-Hawk- "Behind your back." Then begins the struggle. The hawk tries to catch the chicks and the mother tries to save them. According as the hawk catches one it drops out.
Nuts in May is played by the children forming two rows facing each other. One row advances to meet the other and then returns singing- "Here we come gathering Nuts in May, nuts in May, nuts in May, here we come gathering nuts in May on a fine and frosty morning". The other row advances then and returns singing- "Whom will you have for nuts in May- nuts in May, nuts in May, whom will will you have for nuts in May on a fine and frosty morning. The other row advances once again singing the name of some child in the opposite row.

of ring, saying, "I have a wee bird in my pocket, I wont give it to you, nor you, I'll give it to you", and tips someone who runs after her round the ring. This child then goes round the ring saying the same rhyme. A ring is also formed for "Round the Green Gravel" the grass it grows green, many 'a lady was fit to be seen, dressed in silk, white as milk and last hops down". The last to hop down goes out of the ring and so on until only a couple remain. "Ring a Rosey" is played the same way as "Green Gravel".
For "Hen and Flock of chickens", one child is the mother hen and the others line up behind her in a line each catching the waist of the child in front of her. One is the hawk and he kneels in front. The mother- "What are you doing there?" Hawk- "Gathering sand". Mother-What do you want

and not to give them to her until she would promise to do something for the princess. That night he got his supper, a bit of bread that was baked for a hundred years and sour milk but Green Leaf came and gave him a good supper. Next morning the black man sent him to get a ring belonging to his mother that was lost for a hundred years. The prince began to throw out the manure but it was coming in faster. Greenleaf came to help him. She threw out two pikes and she got it. He gave it to the black man.
That night he got his supper the same as before. He was sent out in a stable to sleep. Greenleaf came and gave him a good bed. Next morning the prince was sent to find in the bottom of a deep well a pin which was belonging to his mother that was lost for a hundred years. He went to the well. He began to throw out the water but it was flowing in faster. Greenleaf came to help him. She threw out two cups of water and she got it. She gave it to the prince and he gave it to the black man. The black man Fair Beauty the black man's daughter knew that Greenleaf was helping him

and not to give them to her until she would promise to do something for the princess. That night he got his supper, a bit of bread that was baked for a hundred years and sour milk but Green Leaf came and gave him a good supper. Next morning the black man sent him to get a ring belonging to his mother that was lost for a hundred years. The prince began to throw out the manure but it coming in faster. Greenleaf came to help him. She threw out two pikes and she got it. He gave it to the black man.
That night he got his supper the same as before. He was sent out in a stable to sleep. Greenleaf came and gave him a good bed. Next morning the prince was sent to find in the bottom of a deep well a pin which was belonging to his mother that was lost for a hundred years. He went to the well. He began to throw out the water but it was flowing in faster. Greenleaf came to help him. She threw out two cups of water and she got it. She gave it to the prince and he gave it to the black man. The black man Fair Beauty the black man's daughter knew that Greenleaf was helping him

away or that he would be killed. The prince said he should see the giant. When he came he threw the cake as before and he said, "that is my sister's baking." The prince asked if he knew where the black man lived and he said, "Wait for a while."
Next morning they went to the bank of the river. He blew into his horn and all the fishes of the sea came. The giant asked them did they know about the black man's castle. They said "No." He blew into another horn. All the birds of the air came except one. He asked them did they know anything about the black man's castle. They said "No." He blew twice before the dove came. When she came they said where were you when I blew the first time? She said, I was coming." Where were you when I blew the second time? She said I was coming." Where were you when I blew the third time? I was on the top of the black man's castle." Then the giant told her to take the prince with her. When he was coming near the house he met a servant. The servant told him there were two of the black man's daughters swimming in a lake near the house and to carry Green Leaf's clothes

while the prince was harnessing the horse. The cakes that she made could talk. She put one of the cakes at the door, the other at the fire and the third at the bottom of the stairs. After a while the black man said Greenleaf are you going to bed. The cake at the fire said "I am just raking the fire." When Greenleaf was not going to bed again said, Greenleaf are you going to bed." The cake at the door said, "I am just locking the door." After another while he said again Greenleaf are you going to bed." The cake at the bottom of the stairs said "I am just at the bottom of the stairs."
When they were not going to bed the black man and Fair Beauty got up and when they saw that they were gone they got ready and followed them. When the prince and Greenleaf saw them near, Greenleaf told the prince to put his finger into the horses ear. So he did. He brought a drop of sweat out in his finger and he threw it behind him. Then there was a big sea behind them. The black man and Fair Beauty had to turn home for something to drain the sea. When they had it drained they followed them again. When they were coming near them again Greenleaf gave the prince a nail told him throw it behind him. So he did

and they locked her into a room. He told the prince to get to a high castle and get a golden goose that was on the top of it. He went to the castle. He looked up and saw her.
Greenleaf turned herself into a butterfly and came out the key hole. She came to the prince and cut off her ten fingers and made steps of them. He climbed up and got the goose. Greenleaf told him not to miss any step coming down. The prince was so delighted coming with the goose that he missed one step and that finger was turned. He gave the goose to the black man. Greenleaf told the prince that the black man was goin to get one of themselves married to the prince. They would be locked into a room and she told him to get herself and Fair Beauty put out their fingers through a hole in the door and that she would put out her turned finger. In that way she would be selected. This day they were locked into a room. They put out their fingers. The prince said he would take this one and black man told him to take the other one. The prince said "No." Then the prince and Greenleaf got married. That night when the black man and Fair Beauty were gone to bed Greenleaf baked three cakes of bread

rock beside the field where the fairies stayed. After he had it ploughed, he let out the cows to graze and two of them fell down the rock and got killed.There is a man named Mick Crearne he lives in Ceanaghan. One day about a month ago he was working in a field beside the rock and he heard a great noise like a fair, and he said that he thought the fairies was back again.

Some farmers help each other at the digging of the potatoes and setting them. If two farmers have only one horse, one farmer gets the two horses for one day then the other gets the two horses for the next day, and the do the same when they are digging the potatoes.
There is a man in Ballyherron named Sam Stot, he has a wooden plough but it is decaying.

'Twas on the 5th and 6th of May in the year of '81.
I left my mother's dwelling for to join a glorious throng I came to famed Kilmanagh that place of high renown 'Twas our intent we were all bent to keep bad landlords down. II When I came to Kilmanagh town I solemnly declare I know there were no market no races or a fair Such a sight of heroes never yet was seen The Kilmanagh boys they took the sway They were all dressed in green. III Long life unto our blessed clergy that lived in Tulloroan Six hundred men they marched with them as fine as e'er was known This glorious throng they marched along and never seemed to frown They all did swear I do declare w'ell keep bad landlords down IV Sammy Lane of Shipton plain on him dont depend He sent for his tenants all and said he'd be their friend He'd give them 5 1/2 d to the pound but no poor law tax would pay

school was discontinued. About sixty years ago. The building was let to an ex R.I.C man by the Landlord and presently is the sub-Post Office in the district.May Reddington
Cloghans

This belief has come down the generations. The great hunger is called the Féir Gortach and the name is used to name the complaint just as the name of any other illness would be - thus "the "Feír Gortach" struck him on his way home.
It is described as a wonderful hunger or feeling of being hungry. There is no cure except some oat-meal. It was the custom in olden times for people always to carry a piece of oat-bread in the pocket. Long stories are told about victims of the mysterious disease and Long descriptions of how they felt and of the immediate cure on eating the smallest morsel of oat meal.

On the last day the red man told the boy to go out cut a wood, plough it, harrow it, sow wheat in it, make flour of it and bring the flour home in the evening. The boy went out to cut the wood and by dinner time he had not one cut. The girl came with his dinnear and he would not have it and she said never mind Ill cut it.
Then the boy ate his dinner and while he was eating his dinner the girl had the wood cut, the place ploughed, and the wheat sowed, the wheat cut, the wheat made into flour and the boy brought the flour home in the evening. The girl told the boy that the red man was to kill the two of them and she said don't sleep to night and Ill put a ladder up to the window and be ready to come down and so he did. The got the pony and set off. They went on for a good while and the girl told the boy to look behind and see was the red man coming and the

on the third day the boy went out and the red man beat him on this day the child asked him what would he wish for and the red man said to get my house where ever it is.
The boy set off to find the house he came to a house and asked for lodgen. Then he asked the man of the house did he know where the red man's house was and the man said he did not know. But he said he had a brother a 100 miles from here. He gave him his pony and the boy set off. to the place when he landed at the place he asked where the red man's house was. The man said he had a brother 200 miles from here and he will tell you where the red mans house is. give that pony and Ill give you mine so he did he landed at the place The man said he had three daughters and the come in three pigeons to the lake at the end of that field for a bath every day one in green clothes another in red clothes and the third one in white clothes The man said to the boy hide in