School: Borrisoleigh, Glenkeen (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás de Búrca
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- (continued from previous page)off his back. he went and told the other fellow. The next he cam on. When he came to the fort he heard the fairies saying Monday, Tuesday, Monday, Tuesday. the man then began saying Thursday, Friday Saturday the fairies did not like that so they called in the man and when he went in and instead of taking off the hump they put the other hump on his back as well. And he two humps on his back going home instead of one. And the other fellow was laughing when the fairies did not take the hump off his back and they took it off his own back.
- Long ago all the old people would tell you old stories about long ago. It used to be said that a man used be seen on the top of a hill in the townsland of Curnaboola.
- Collector
- Mary Younge
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killamoyne, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Bourke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Curraghnaboola, Co. Tipperary
- It is said that two(continues on next page)
