School: Dumha-chaisil
- Location:
- Ballindoo or Doocastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Dubhda
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- (continued from previous page)botalán, it would turn into a horse and away he would go wherever he wished, but he warned him that he must not speak or he would fall off the horse.
This was all very fine but the trips did not agree very well with him. A few weeks after, his wife noticed that he was getting very thin, and she asked him was he sick but he said he was not. After a while she got a neighbouring man to watch him.
One night this man saw the smith mounting the botalán and he waited around the house until the smith came home. He told him he would tell the neighbours about him, if he did not tell him where he got(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O' Dowd
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Doobeg, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Michael Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockrawer, Co. Sligo
