School: Cooneal (roll number 6416)

Location:
Coonealmore, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Patrick Timbin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0145, Page 168

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  3. XML “Women's Work in Olden Times”
  4. XML “A Story about the Fairies”

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridget Mc Hale
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Martin Mc Hale
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathglass, Co. Mayo
  2. About sixty years ago a man named Commons was ploughing round a fort in Rathglass. He took a scrape off the fort. When he came home and had the horses [?], and his supper eaten he heard a great shouting and crying outside his house, and he bolted all his doors and windows. The next day he went to the field and left down the scrape and he never the shouting and crying afterwards. It was supposed to be the fairies.
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