School: Bán-Tír (C.) (roll number 2804)
- Location:
- Bántír, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Síle, Bean Uí Dheadaigh
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- (continued from previous page)in the cradles instead of the babies. This happened to the Fortgrady woman. One morning when she was lighting the fire the baby was crying greatly and she brought the cradle up near her.
The child still kept on crying and his mother was so annoyed that she said "God knows Johnny, my heart is broken". The baby answered "God knows Betty, I will break it better for you".The woman then knew that it was a fairy that was in the cradle and not her baby as she thought.
It died a short time afterwards.Mary Barry Banteer Co. Cork.
- In John Mc. Keering's land, Shanavoher, Glantane, Co. Cork, there is a double ditch and it is said that a fairy used come out there each evening at six o'c. in the summer time and used count his money on two tables of stone.
- Collector
- Mary Barry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bántír, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Miss Nora M Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 25
- Address
- Baile Lombaird, Co. Chorcaí
