School: Baile an Daingin (C.) (roll number 4828)
- Location:
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire de Staic
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- (continued from previous page)take an other route home.
That night Tom's father took suddenly ill and Tom was told to go for the doctor but, he was so much afraid that he brought two of his neighbors with him.
When the doctor arrived the father died.
Next morning when the people heard that he was dead they would not believe it so they heard singing and dancing in the house all night but, it was the fairies the were singing and that took the father.
This is a true story so some of the people are still alive that lived in the village at that time.
Mooneencopia is a log on top of a lime stone hill.
The Ordnance Survey man said that he never saw(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maura Waldron
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballindine, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Patrick Mc Hugh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 32
- Address
- Cuillaun, Co. Mayo
