School: St Boden's, Culdaff
- Location:
- Culdaff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Doiminic Ó Duibhne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1123, Page 177
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- About a quarter of a mile east side of Aughaclay Chapel, there is a field with a holly tree growing in the middle of it. The owner of this field who did not believe in fairies employed a man to subsoil the land and remove this holly tree. On the night before he was to remove this holly tree he was preparing for bed when a small woman with a red hood came into the house, although the door was closed. She told him not to interfere with this holly tree but to tell his employer to put a high wall to the west side of it. Then he turned to question the woman she was gone; the door was closed all the time. He went next morning and told his employer what he saw and heard and said he would not interfere with this holly-tree no matter what he gave him for doing it, as he was afraid. His employer said he would have to remove the tree next(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joe Mc Grory
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Manus Harkin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Muff, Co. Donegal
