School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)

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   “In the sixth century there lived in a lake near the village of Attymon a monster.”

   

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   together with the three wells and the hole where the monster went into the ground for ever.

   

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2. The Discontented Girl

   

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   There was once a little girl who lived with her father and mother and her brother in a beautiful house near Tuam. She was not satisfied eventhough her parents were rich because her brother was always quarrelling with her and she thought she would rather live with the Gipsies. One day she stole away without her mother seeing her, to find the Gipsies. The very first person she met was a Gipsy woman. The woman greeted her and the little girl proudly told the woman that she was going to live with the Gipsies. Then the woman took her to their camp beside the road. How happy the little girl was at first but she was hungry after the journey and wondered why the woman was not preparing tea and sweet cakes just as she had at home. Soon the woman gave her cold

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   Topics

   1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Julia Cloonan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   13

   Address

   Clogh, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Honoria Cloonan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   78

   Address

   Clogh, Co. Galway