School: Killough (roll number 9540)
- Location:
- Cill Uailleach, Co. na hIarmhí
- Teacher: Mary Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 309
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- Some years ago near a fort in Glonan a poor woman, her daughter and her son lived in a hut. People who used to be passing by this fort used to hear the noise of spinning wheels. This poor woman's daughter was no good for work, one day the woman was beating the girl for not working. A gentleman out of Clonan was passing by and he found a woman beating the girl and he went in and asked her what she was beating the girl for and she said because she was doing to much spinning. The gentleman married the girl. She had alot of spinning to do and she was crying. One of the fairies came out of the fort and asked her what she was crying for and she said she had alot of spinning to do. The fairly said that she might not fight about the spinning but that in three days, she was to guess the fairy's name, and that if she did not, she was to disappear and that another creature would be left in her place. So it happened that the gentleman was passing the fort he found the fairy spinning and she was singing "littel the dame knows at home my name is Lovgher Pun" The gentleman told her what the fairy was singing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Anne Callan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Williamstown (Briscoe), Co. na hIarmhí
