School: Gleann Gort, Caisleán Nua Thiar (roll number 7329)
- Location:
- Glengort South, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Treasa, Bean Uí Shúilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0492, Page 188
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- (continued from previous page)side of the field there was a hollow. He saw a great crowd of people and horsemen. There was a great battle fought over him and his party gained the day and he was taken back to his own bed again. The red-haired man came and asked him "Do you remember the night you were out fishing that you fell in the river and that was the night you were taken by the good people. But you are all right now and another boy was taken instead of you". The red-haired man told him give up fishing and late rambling. He enquired of his people about the boy and he told him he was buried in Templeghantine cemetery and he got out of bed the day the boy was buried.
- Collector
- Bridget O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Toornafulla, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mary Quirke
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 91
