School: Ráth Maoláin (roll number 16131)
- Location:
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Laoise Ní Ruairc
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0577
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- (continued from previous page)as lighting. And so the knock went on and the calls was heard and fairies, entered, until at last twelve faries women sat round the fire the first with one horn and the last with twelve horn.And they carded the thread and turned their spinning and wound and wove, all singing together an ancient rhyme, but no word did they speak to the mistress of the house.And the mistress near fell dead, and tried to rise that she might call for help but she could not move, or utter a word or cry for the spell of faries was upon her. Then one of them called to her in Irish, and said "Rice woman and (us) make us a cake. The mistress searched for a vessil to bring water from the well and left the bush on the forth where she got it and when she returned to the house the faries were gone and from that day till this it's unlucky to touch a fairy fort.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Corcoráin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John Corcoran
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathmullen, Co. Sligo
