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School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

Location:
Dysart, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ní Ailpín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0673, Page 108

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    out with the saw and the slashing hook and cut down the lone bush and the next week he went out to plough the field and when he crossed the place with the plough where the lone bush was, a ring of fairies danced round him while another batch of them carried away the horse and the plough and they they came back and killed the man so when evening came the man's wife sent a child out with his tea and when the child got to the field he saw the man lying dead and the horse and the plough lying beside him and the horse was dead and the plough was all broken up
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Campbell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Hitchestown, Co. Louth