School: Tiobraid Árann (B.) (roll number 1285)
- Location:
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Floinn
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Long long ago the hills of Oola were full of fairies and they used to take people away. One night they took a woman’s only son. His mother was trying to cure him and then they took her. A man lived in the place and he use to cure them he was called the fairy doctor. One day the neighbours had a little conversation and one of the women said that he had no cure no more than herself or when he came to cure the woman was able to tell what she said.
- Collector
- Patrick Mullins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mary Bourke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Tipperary, Co. Tipperary
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“One night a boy had a dream that there was a crock of gold hid under a certain tree.”
One night a boy had a dream that there was a crock of gold hid under a certain tree. When he woke up in the morning he went out to look for it, when suddenly a roaring bull attached him and he had to leave it(continues on next page)