School: Clochar na Trócaire, An tSráidbhaile (roll number 13020)
- Location:
- Stradbally, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: An tSr. Ióseph
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0649, Page 82
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- (continued from previous page)where Mary was educated. Outside their own gate there was a fairy fort, and every morning when the child was going to school her mother always went out and opened the gate for her and then closed it. Her mother used to look out then to see if the little one would be going down the road, so she saw no sign of her, nor for three mornings after. So she said to herself it must be into the fort she went instead of going to school.
When Mary was going next morning her mother told her to ask the fairy queen what would she give a sick calf. The little one did as she was told and the fairy told her to wash(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Stradbally More, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Kate Walsh
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
