School: Gort an tSiúrdáin (roll number 14534)
- Location:
- Gortjordan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Módhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0106, Page 621
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- (continued from previous page)have great power. When the fairies used to come to shoe their horses at night, the smith could make them do what he would like. Long ago it was the smith that used to pull teeth before the dentists were known
- In Kilkeeran there is a blessed well. There was an old bush growing over the well. Long ago the men used to come on horse back and they would tie a rag to the tree. The tree withered away and a young tree grew up over the well. The people pay a visit(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cahermaculick, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- John Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cahermaculick, Co. Mayo
