School: Drumfries (roll number 1572)
- Location:
- Drumfree, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: P. E. Ó Dubhthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1110, Page 251
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- Long, long years ago a woman was sick. She was awfully bad, and had nothing to cure her with.
One day a woman came into her. This woman of course being a fairy but she didn't know that. The fairy gave her some oil. Then she departed. The woman rubbed some on her left eye. So she recovered.
One other day she was going on an errand. She met a fairy woman, the latter or another we do not know. But anyhow the fairy woman says to her "How is it that you see me." "With what eye?" She foolish enough closed the eye she put the oil on, and the fairy woman knocked it out of her.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miss Ethel Fullerton
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drumfree, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mary Mc Cay
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Drumfree, Co. Donegal
