School: N. Seosamh, Cill Lasrach (roll number 16289)
- Location:
- Killasser, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S. Mac Carrghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 164
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“The fairies are supposed to have gone since the prayers after mass started.”
(continued from previous page)village were going to burn the fort so the fairies let the person go. It was said that Frank Brennan's used always leave a plate of potatoes on the table every night and in the morning they'd be all gone. Farlo's that lived over between James Peyton's and Mc. Geever's in the hog were awful poor and Mrs. Peyton (mother-in-law to Mrs. Jas Peyton) used to say that the fairies used leave the quarter of tea in the hob hole for them.
There should always be a clear passage for the fairies to the fire after the people of the house go to bed. The house should be tidied up and the chairs taken away from around the fire as the fairies might want to warm themselves. Whenever the old people would spice anything they'd say "it must be wanted by them" and up to now they never run a round of poteen without leaving a drop, the first drop that comes from the still out of the ditch for the good people.
In [?] Burke's field in Cloonfinish the fairies used to be heard churning and washing clothes and very often(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joseph P. Caron
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs J. Peyton
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Dromada (Gore), Co. Mayo