School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 169
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“Once upon a time there lived a woman.”
(continued from previous page)face and after a time the woman put up her hand and all the tears had got solid at the end of her face. The woman got frightened and she told the fairies and they told her take no notice of that. They would fall off the next day. In the morning when the woman went home her children asked her what happened to her, and the woman told them the way she was in the fort and she had to cry with the fairies. In the middle of the day it fell off the woman's face and she went to bed sick and that night the woman died. It was said that fairies used to be seen around the room(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Shanahan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Shanahan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockane, Co. Kerry