School: Convent of Mercy, Moville (roll number 9278)
- Location:
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Sr. Celestine Clarke
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- (continued from previous page)many little marks on this stone and the old people tell us they are the marks of the fairies feet.
- Outside the town of Moville in Co. Donegal is a town-land called Gulladuff. In this place there once lived a woman who had a child that never stopped crying. One morning a little woman came into her house. She asked the child's mother what was the matter with the child, and she said she did not know, and the little woman said "If you stop throwing your dirty water down on us, your baby will stop crying." The child's mother never threw water down the glen after that and her baby stopped crying.
The old people tell us that this little woman was a fairy and that the crying baby's mother threw dirty water down a glen where there were the remains of an old rath in which fairies dwelt. The fairies made(continues on next page)- Collector
- Frances Molloy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr D Wilson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Moville, Co. Donegal