School: Aughaconey
- Location:
- Aghaconny, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: S. Mac Síomóin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0989, Page 215
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- About ten years ago, an old lady called Fairy Harriet, lived in Ballintemple. Beside here house there was a Fort and she has some of it levelled.
One evening tall men appeared at her house, and people said they were fairies. When they came to came to her house they began throwing stones, which was so smooth that one would think they had been handled for years. They took tubs of butter and left them in an oats field; put a harrow on the sow's neck; took Fairy Harriet's old clothes and left them in the field. after that Fairy Harriet got iron bars which she put on the windows to prevent the fairies coming in to her house.
Collected by: Mollie Galligan,
Aughaconey,
Ballinagh.
From: John Beattie, (aged about 78 years) Aughaconey, Ballinagh
- Collector
- Mollie Galligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Aghaconny, Co. an Chabháin
- Informant
- John Beattie
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Aghaconny, Co. an Chabháin
