School: Baile an Chaisil C., Clochar na Trócaire
- Location:
- Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: An tSr. Aingeal
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0140, Page 343
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- (continued from previous page)match. He went and they carried him to Down Patrick where other fairies waited to paly against them. Then they began the match and the man stood in the goals. The fairies of Rarch Muragan having won the match carried the man back to the Fort again feeling quite proud of him. Afterwards they told him that they would grant him any request he would ask.
Not long before this happened a mare was stolen from a man named Máirtín Mór. who lived in Ballyglass. This man who helped the fairies to win the match now asked them to tell him who stole the mare and the fairies told him to say this rhyme for Máirtín Mór.
The Fairies of Rarch Muragan were challenged to Kildare
Some wee folk to play a joke stole Máirtín Mór's old mare
The other day she heard them say they were going to have her docked
And what did the poor old mare do(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora Jordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killerduff, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Langan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killerduff, Co. Mayo
