Volume: CBÉ 0265

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1. Fairy and Gap

   

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   Once upon a time there was a man by the name of Pat Keefe of Ardnaboy and he was living by himself. He had a gap going into one of his fields & every evening he built up the gap at 6 o'c & in the mornings the gaps was down again & this night he built up the gap & lay down in the grass & at 12 o'c a little man came & began to knock down the stones & Pat got up & caught him by the neck & put a knife in his throat & he says to him "Draw your dagger & stab again" and he went home & went to bed. The next morning he went down to the gap & got the knife in a heap of jelly & the gap was never knocked down again.

   

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   History Edit

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Location

   Ardnaboy, Co. Wicklow

   Informant

   • Hugh Reilly