School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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- (continued from previous page)dancing to beautiful music. The fire was the size of a smoothing iron. One evening when she was sent on a message she was delayed and when returning through the fields that night she got lost though she went through these fields often before. She sat down under a loan bush and put her pinafore round her head to lie down for the night. Suddenly four little men came from the fort carrying a door. They asked Mary to get on the door and they carried her home safe and sound.
- 5. There is a fort on the lands of Barney Branigan of Annagh. Children often got lots of little piples in the fort.
- 6. In the land of Patrick Branigan, there is a rock covered with whins. It is called the "Mótha" and Patrick when a child used explore this rock. Once he came upon a lot of little passages and tiny rooms. Another time he pulled a lot of blackthorn bushes that grew near this rock. After this he had a habit of counting(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cremartin, Co. Monaghan
