School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 170
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Local Fairy Stories (continued)
“One night as a man was coming from town, walking, at about half past eleven, he was saw a light at Devlis.”
(continued from previous page)Lecarrow, and he was coming from the mail train.
On seeing the man the cardriver pulled up and brought the man home safe.
Local Fairy Stories
“There is an old man living in Coogue in the parish of Knock who was very fond of cardplaying.”
There was an old man living in Coogue in the parish of Knock who was very fond of cardplaying. He was ready for visiting at six o'clock in the evening, and he would come home at twelve o'clock in the night.
Once upon a time two women lived in a very old house. One of them died and the other went to America, but she died shortly afterwards.
One of the rooms fell in so one night as the man from Coogue was coming home he saw the(continues on next page) - Collector
- Stephen Hunt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Cronin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lecarrow, Co. Mayo