School: Baile an Droichid (Ballindrait) (roll number 11254)
- Location:
- Tamnawood, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire Bean Mhic Cleantóige
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1100, Page 174
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- In olden times the fairies used to live under rocks and stones. If anyone went out on Halloween night it is said that the fairy music would set him mad. There is a story told about a woman who lived near where the fairies were, and she used to throw out water every day till one day the fairy came to her house, and told her not to throw out any more of her water or she would drown them all. People would not cut a holly bush on account of the fairies living in them.
They also lived in hawthorn bushes. There is a place in Castlefinn called the Peddlers Burn.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Holmes
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr J. Blair
- Gender
- Male
