School: Adamstown (roll number 3755)
- Location:
- Maigh Arnaí, Co. Loch Garman
- Teacher: Donnchadh Cuirtéis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0899, Page 315
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“There was often men with tall red hats seen in Roche's rath Assegart Foulksmills.”
It is said that two men went into this rath one night. One of them had a white horse, an he was a good man The other had done something to these fairies before.
The two of them hand humps on their backs.
It is said that the fairies took the hump off the good mans back, and out it on the other, and he had two humps.
- Collector
- Alice Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cúil na Graí, Co. Loch Garman
- Informant
- John O' Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- Agard Hae, Co. Loch Garman