School: Knockaderry (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Hanna Mannix
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 199
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- (continued from previous page)to spend every night with the "good people" in the fort.
He told the mother about the girl throwing the turf at the whirl-wind, and he said he saw it happening himself, and the sod of turf hit one of the fairies in the whirl-wind, and, he said,, when it did, that the fairy turned back and gave the little girl a kick and - added the old man, - "There is no cure for your little girl, one the "good people: put any hand on her," So after three months of suffering, the little girl died.
- Informant
- Patsie Moriarty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
