School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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- (continued from previous page)a voice to the window to ask if he was hurt. It was the voice of the man MCabe knew that was with the fairies. MCabe was vexed and wouldn't answer him. On the third night the voice asked was he hurt and MCabe said he was and the voice said that if he had taken the sup of milk that the fairies wouldn't have beaten him.
No 26
Story told to me by James Rourke Corroneary
Aughavass Farma aged 50 years
- There was a man and a woman one time living in Corraneary and they had only one child a boy. It was the finest child in the parish but after a while it got sick and began to fade away. It used to be always crying and no matter how often the mother fed it it used to be always crying. It never rose out of its cradle but lay there all day crying. One day the father was going to the forge to get a boy iron laid, and when he was starting the child sat up in the cradle and said "When you go to the forge the blacksmith will say that there is 3 cracks in the iron and that it will be a hard job to lay it." The man went off to the forge and when(continues on next page)
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- James Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Corraneary, Co. Leitrim
