School: Loch an Toirc (roll number 9584)
- Location:
- Loughatorick South, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhuirgheasa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0050, Page 0250
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- There was a little house at the back of the sleepyplace it was built about 250 years ago.
There was a man living in the house and the fairies used to haunt him.
And when he died he was buried at the back of the little house.
It was a very small little house and it was built in the fairies way and that is why the fairies used haunt him.
If one was coming home after twelve of o clock and going past the sleepyplace as it was called they would catch them and put them astray.
No one knew the mans name unless some of the old inhabitants who lived long ago.
It is about 100 or 90 years ago since he died there. The man used sleep till 1 and 2 in the day and that is why it is called the sleepyplace.
- Collector
- Martin Gildea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Toorleitra, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Hallom
- Gender
- Male
