School: Ráth Araidh (roll number 9362)
- Location:
- Rahara, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ní Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0267, Page 149
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- (continued from previous page)before they went. Red Stockings got out in the middle of the night & started whaling the bag with a hatchet. When he had it well whaled he looked to see was the man dead & it was a bag of straw that was in it instead of the man & he was gone. He got his leggings & put them on & he landed in the hollow of the hill of Cam (near Curraghboy) and that's why the hollow is there ever since.
The Fair Lady of the Lake fired down rings at him & the rings piled up in heaps so high
that they could not climb it & they got the sledge & started knocking them down. When he got out Red Stockings took another step & landed below in Athleague. That's why the hollow is below in Athleague ever since. The Lady of the Lake fired down the Golden Egg & the eggs piled up so high the Red Stockings & his wife (who was with him) were not able to get up over them. And they went down threw the eggs & weren't(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Jim Mulligan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Funshinagh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Jim Kelly
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Coolagarry, Co. Roscommon
