School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)
- Location:
- Banagher, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Hairt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 319
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- The Fairy PinLong ago there was a man named John Golden from Rath Lachen.
One night he was coming home from visiting and it was very later. He met a funeral coming towards him. When he came near it he told them to lay down the coffin. He took off the lid of it and he found a girl in it and she was alive so he brought her home and he married her. But she had no talk.
So a man came one day when he was out working in the field and he told him that there was a pin in the back of his wife's neck and when he would go home to take it out and that she would(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Hale
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Maria Breslin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo
