School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 225
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- (continued from previous page)If you caught a fairy and never took your eyes off it, and ask it where there was a crock of gold it would tell you.
- Long ago in times of eviction a man named Bell of Stranooden made a song about it. The name of it was "Bell's Eviction" and this was the song:
One morn of late confusion great,
Set in about Stranooden O.
As something quare was in the air
And mischief seemed a brooding, O
For boys and men from hill and glen
Came crowding to the highway O
And laughing girls with tossing curls(continues on next page) - Collector
- Packie Mc Carvill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Hugh Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Calliagh, Co. Monaghan
