School: Ballinakillew (roll number 8433)
- Location:
- Ballynakillew Mountain, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mary K. Nutt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1031, Page 430
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- (continued from previous page)calling “Take me back to my daddy.”
So they put her in under a creel in the barn. They went to see her in the morning. She had vanished without lifting the creel or opening the door.
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- Collector
- Evelyn Harron
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Bridgetown, Co. Donegal
- Once upon a time there was a woman who had two children. Every time she sent the children to the well they always came home without the water and they used to tell their mother that the fairies were gathered round(continues on next page)
