School: Baile Nua an Fhaoitigh (roll number 9040)

Location:: Newtownwhite, Co. Mayo
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Once upon a time a man named John Walsh living in Carrowkelly when he had his supper eaten went out to the field tieing his horse. The faries came to him and said for to tie the horse to a buacalán and he did so. Then the faries went away again and brought the man with them. All night he was going in and out in his neighbours key-holes and in the morning he found himself untieing the horse from the buacalán. Obrained from Cecil Carroll, Charles Carroll, Ballysakeery,
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Language

English
Location

Carrowkelly, Co. Mayo

Collector
Cecil Carroll
Gender

Male
Address

Ballysakeery, Co. Mayo

Informant
Charles Carroll
Gender

Male
Address

Ballysakeery, Co. Mayo

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