School: Shrove (roll number 3470)
- Location:
- Stroove, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Leonard Bovaird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1118, Page 18
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- (continued from previous page)music at this Fort in the evenings. There is a fairy ring in the townland of Tardrum, this one is circular in shape with a hollow in the middle. In the spring it is covered with bluebells. There is a story of a small boy who was out on his own street with a tin cup in his hand. He stood listening as he heard nice music coming from the direction of the ring and soon he was surrounded by a great number of small boys. They began dancing around him and draging him away. They took him on till they came to the fairy ring They tried to get the cup from him but he still held on to it and then they all went away and left him standing there. He got home before 12 o'clock His parents were looking everyplace for him but he could not get him
- Collector
- Leonard Bovaird
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
