School: Killurine
- Location:
- Cill Iúirín, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Ss Hutton
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- Collector
- Thomas Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Thomas Murray
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Baile an Bhealaigh, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- A man ploughed a field in my grandfather's fields in Killeen more one day. In the evening after tea he went out to look at the work he had done. He sat on the handles of the plough. A Fairy blast came. "If this plough were a horse I would go with you", Said the man. No sooner had he said the words than the plough and himself were taken into the air and was brought to the far side of Derry. No one ever heard of him after.
- One day when my grand-father was ploughing in Killeenmore, the plough entred a hole in the ground. With the neighbour's help the plough was got back.(continues on next page)