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1. Legends and Fairy Tales of Meelick (continued)

   

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   to the otherwise uninteresting and lonely island. It may have to be pointed out that this district is the natural home of the fairies. Any May morning they can be heard in the air, or on rare occasions, seen leaving the dust of Lusmagh behind them, to seek new homes and pastures green in the ancient province of Connaught. It is only on May mornings that they can cross running water. Mr. Glynn was told by a venerable old lady that many a delicate person was taken away by the "good people" from Banagher and Lusmagh via Inchanaclaha, never again to bear mortal eyes on their old homes on the Banks of the Shannon or Brosna. Be that as it may the event about to be related here is fully believed in by people who remember East Galway two or three generations ago and in Mr. Glynn's young days there were many alive whose parents related to them amidst breathless silence the fall of the young men on that solitary island surrounded by the rushing waters of the river Shannon. It appears that one evening a young fellow from Lusmagh wanted to reach the Connaught side of the stream and decided to cross to Inchanaclaha and then attract the attention of the inmates of a house opposite, one of whom he believed would be only

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brighid, Bean Mhic Aodhgáin

   Gender

   Female

   Occupation

   Múinteoir

   Address

   Eyrecourt, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Mr Thomas Glynn

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   83

   Occupation

   Clerk

   Address

   Kilmachugh, Co. Galway