School: Killyraine (roll number 4181)
- Location:
- Killyrean Upper, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: S. Ó Coilleadh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0961, Page 008
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- How the fairies came to Ireland.My sister Brigid once heard a story about a priest: he was coming on a horse, on a lonely road, he saw a rock moving, and he said to himself, "I am sure that God didn't put those wee people out of heaven "I am sure they did'nt do much harm".
As he was saying this his horse got lame its name was Terror and he says to Terror We have a long road to go and it is getting late." He got of the horse, and to his siurprise he saw a wee man and the priest said to him "my poor horse has gone lame and has lost his shoe and I don't know what to do" The wee man was the king of fairies and he said to the priest "I have just send for our wee blacksmith and he will be here any minute "When they were a while talking the wee man said "come on over to this rock and sit down and talk: and just then the wee blacksmith came and putthe shoe on the horse, and just then the horse ran away, and all the wee fairies ran and caught it and took it back to him Then the priest said to the King. Why(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Annie Lavery
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Emyvale, Co. Monaghan
