School: Drumaweir (roll number 5228)
- Location:
- Drumaweer, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Dómhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 120
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- (continued from previous page)attentively to the tale and told the farmer to sit down while she was telling the cause of his bad luck. It was that the site of the near cowshed was the fairies' amusement ground. Urine from the shed flowed down to where their queen lived and annoyed her very much. She advised him to change his cowshed and she would find his luck would return. So afterwards the old woman said she must be going and opened the door and disappeared in the darkness. The farmer next day changed the cowshed and in course of time his cattle increased tenfold. The old woman was a fairy because no one in the neighbourhood had ever seen any old woman answering to the description given by the farmer in the Credagh.
- Collector
- Cahal Mc Cormick
- Gender
- Male
