School: Pitfield, Inis (roll number 11091)
- Location:
- Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maonaigh
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- (continued from previous page)his mother. There he searched the girl's hair and found the "brorán suan" which the fairies had placed there, and the girl began to talk.
She told them she had been sick and the fairies sstole her away, and she said to the boy "you must bring me home tomorrow to my own people"
Next day they reached the house of the girl, the boy told her to stay at the gate and hold his horse while he went in.
He began talking to the girl's mother and she brought him to the room where the sick girl lay.
She thought it was her daughter that was on the bed, but it was the iarlais the fairies had placed there when they took her daughter.
They were not long in the room when the girl disappeared.
The woman began crying and called her husband saying the boy had stolen her daughter.
The boy said it was not her daughter that was in the bed but the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy O' Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortygeeheen, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Kathleen O' Connor
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Gortygeeheen, Co. Clare
