School: Tappa (roll number 10451)
- Location:
- Tetoppa, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Reachtaire
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- (continued from previous page)to the well, when she saw a little man about two feet high, dressed in a little coat, knee-breeches and stockings and shoes. At a certain period of the year lights are seen every night not only by this old woman but by others from the public road, and on two occasions I have seen them myself. About half-a-mile from this is another fort called "Lisnavarne." It is said that this fort is often illuminated with light, and in it music and singing have been heard.
- The horse does be in a house called the stable. The cows does by put in a house called the byre. There does be palm put in the byre for good luck. We have a name on our cow, "pollie." When we are calling the calves we say "sucky." The cows does be in a stall. They do be tied with chains around the neck. When we are calling the hens we say "chuckie" and some people whistle and the hens come.
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