School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1111, Page 225
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“Once upon a time a man saw a fairy and he said to himself that this fairy knew where a pot of gold was hidden.”
(continued from previous page)coming home late and the fairies came out and put him on a calf's back and took him away to a far away country. They came to a sea and the calf leaped to the other side. Now you are not to speak when you are with the fairies, but the boy said, "That is the calf can jump," and for that the fairies left him on the other side of the sea.
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“Once upon a time there was a widow woman and her son living in a house.”
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- Alick Fullerton
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 50
- Address
- Gortyarrigan, Co. Donegal