School: An Clochán (B)
- Location:
- Clifden, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An Br. Angelo Mac Shámhais
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0004, Page 074
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- (continued from previous page)the fairies. Every week he was taken by the fairies to a football match. When the match began he had to play on the bagpipes. He asked his mother how long he had been gone and he was told six months but he said he thought it only one night. There was a dance to celebrate his home-coming. He never told anyone outside his mother about the fairy tune. He lived fifty years after his adventure.
- Collector
- J. Lysaght
- Address
- Clifden, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs J. Lysaght
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 37
