School: Tóin an tSeanbhaile
- Location:
- Tóin an tSeanbhaile, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Pádhraic Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0086, Page 251
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Dugort, PO,
Westport, Co. Mayo.
6-12-37.
SidhesThere are a lot of Sidhes around here so people call them Dúns I know an island called "Dún Mór", and a man named Pat McGreal went out to it. There are a lot of holes in it, he went in and got a few big razors in it and a lot of other things. There is another story about it, a man that was going visiting heard beautiful music, he went to where he thought it was and he saw a ladder reaching from the land, he went out on it and he thought the music was going away from him. He came to a house and he went in, and he saw a lot of people dancing and he saw his wife who had died a few years before, he brought her home and she lived a long life after that.
Another man was coming from a fair and he had his horse with him, as he was coming straight facing the Dún the horse stood and would not go, he came off him, but he would not go,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mr James Forry
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bridget Forry
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Doogort, Co. Mayo
- (continued from previous page)Dugort P.O., Westport, Co. Mayo.
6-12-37.
