School: Convent of Mercy, Moville (roll number 9278)

Location:
Moville, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Sr. Celestine Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 173

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 173

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  1. Folklore = The Fairy Cabbage Leaf
    In a little town-land, about three miles outside Moville, there lived a man. One day he was out digging in his field, and he lifted a cabbage-leaf. Suddenly a little fairy appeared on the leaf, and asked hi, would he like a ride on the leaf, and the man said "Oh! I would fall through it." and he found himself sitting on the leaf and the leaf was getting harder and bigger, and the fairy then said "You will now go to Derry and to Coleraine and then back to this field again." But the man who told this story, could not tell, if that man got the ride on the cabbage-leaf or not.
    Kathleen Barr,
    Malin Road,
    Moville
    A true story told by:-
    Mr. Denis McCauley
    Rosebank Cottage,
    Moville.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. On the road from Moville to Greencastle, there are many trees of holly. The old people tell us that a boy went out one day to get some holly, and he told a man that he was going to take
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Barr
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Miss Mary O' Donnell
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Moville, Co. Donegal