School: Donard (roll number 2100)
- Location:
- Donard, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Bríghid, Bean Mic Cártaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 082
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- This story was collected by Mary Kehoe, Killegney, Clonroche, who heard it from a labouring man named Patrick Murphy of Knoxtown, Clonroche, who is over 70 years of age.There was a man one time named Mickey Joe who was said to have been going with the fairies. He lived in the "Gleanntán" in Ballygalvert, Ballywilliam, which is only a short distance from our school.Every night about twelve o'clock Mickey used to leave the house but no one ever heard him open the door.It is said that his wife heard him go up the chimney one night. He used to jump from the top of the chimney to the top of the moat in Kent's land of Donard, thence to the rath on Lett's land of Clonleigh and from there to the old church which was then in Clonleigh.
- Collector
- Mary Kehoe
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killegney, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Patrick Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Knockstown, Co. Wexford
