School: Caisleán Nua (C) (roll number 15772)
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Staic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0079, Page 123
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- (continued from previous page)bread without butter or jam then the little girl said that it was tea she wanted but the gipsy woman had never seen tea. Then the men came in and they seemed very cross and the little girl got afraid of them and said that she would go home because the men knew where she lived but she thought that they might leave her in some lonely place to die. When they had the supper eaten they led the way but she did not know if it was to her home they were bringing her. Soon he led the way through a large wood and the little girl lost sight of them. She sat down and knew not what to do. Soon she fell asleep and woke up next day in her fathers barn then she knew it was with the fairies she was and not with the Gipsies and that they tried to make known to her that she should have stayed at home.
- Collector
- Julia Cloonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Clogh, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Honoria Cloonan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Clogh, Co. Galway
