School: Wateraghy
- Location:
- Woteraghy, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: C. Ó Cuilinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0991, Page 276
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- (continued from previous page)and honour their queen She said that the fairies were dressed in beautiful robes of red, green and yellow.
The queen she said was sitting on a great arm - chair made of gold and silver. She was dressed different to the others. She wore a robe made of pail pink rose petals. It all seemed so wonderful that the woman started to laugh. When the fairies heard this they vanished and when they found out that the neighbours were watching them they never came to the fort to dance and sing again.
- Informant
- Patrick Hughes
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Mullyamly, Co. Cavan
