School: Doire Liath (roll number 10102)
- Location:
- Derryleagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán Ní Shúilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)the match was over he told the fairies not to come there again as the poor woman wanted the grass for her cow. From that day on the fairies never came to the field and there was grass in plenty there.
Seán next went to a rich man's house. He asked the man for lodgings for the night. The man asked Seán if he would sleep in a haunted room in the house and Seán of course said the would. In the middle of the night four men came into the room and they placed a coffin on the floor. When the men were gone Seán got up and looked into the coffin. In the coffin there was a dead man and Seán(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Jer O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Slievenashaska, Co. Kerry
