School: Teampall Mhuire
- Location:
- Carbad Beg, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Eithne, Bean Uí Mhaonghaille
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0144, Page 215
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“In the olden times the belief was that the country was filled with Fairies.”
(continued from previous page)her with the stick. The cow made for the Forth and she went through it. When the man went in he kept hold of her tail dragging him through all the place. The man saw crowds of people young and old, filled with rooms and bleaches of clothes and everything.The man kept beating the cow with the big stick. All the Fairies began shouting that it was better to let the man and the cow go than to smash up all the place on them.So the man came back with the cow. This cow did not really die atall it was some other lump(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Margaret Rogers
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Rogers
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathbaun, Co. Mayo