School: Ballymore (B.) (roll number 7443)
- Location:
- Ballymore, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P.J. Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0743, Page 299
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- Many years ago there lived in Cloneymee a man named Kearney. He was a farmer and he had a 'meitheal' making hay one Sunday evening in the month of September. They had 'cutins'. Little grass cock made of most of the hay and were preparing to go home, when a fairy blast came sweeping from an old fort and lifted each cock high in the air, where it whirling around and around.
One of the men had a two pronged fork in his hand and he ran and stuck it in one of the cocks. Saying at the same time, You won't take this anyway. A piercing shriek rose from the spot where he stuck the fork and a little man with a huge head came forth, bleeding profusely in the leg where he had been stuck.
This little man lived for many years in the neighbourhood after that.
- Collector
- Kevin Kearney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 9
- Address
- Clonyveey, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Kearney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 37
- Address
- Clonyveey, Co. Westmeath
