School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Fiodh Alúine, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 249
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
Download
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Allenwood
- XML Page 249
- XML (no title)
- XML (no title)
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
(no title) (continued)
“There is an old woman buried on the canal bank in Derrymullen and there is a big black dog seen at her grave every night.”
(continued from previous page)black dog seen at her grave every night. The woman drowned herself at Derrymullen bridge. When they found her they did not know where to bury her. At last one man said that they would tie a straw rope around her and pull her along they did so and the rope broke just on the canal bank at the lie-by.
(no title)
“Old people say Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on.”
Old people say Happy is the corpse that the rain falls on. Happy is the bride that the sun shines on.
When there is a person in a room dying old(continues on next page)