School: Cathair Loisgreáin (C)
- Location:
- Caherlustraun, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máire Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0022, Page 0622
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- Up in Bohercuill there are two houses beside each other and two brothers by the names of Cunnighams that live there. People say that when there are two brothers living in a separate house beside each other, neither of them has any luck. One night about two o'clock as some man was passing there, they saw a lot of dancers, and people there, they seemed to have great fun around a blazing fire in the yard. The next morning there was no sign of any fire at all. Different things have been seen around these houses from time to time.
- Collector
- Mary Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Bridget Hughes
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Headford, Co. Galway
- Back in Kilkeel, Headford, there is a clais where the fairies used to have picnics long ago. After the picnics each night they used to leave the fairy delph after them and the people(continues on next page)
