School: Dubhthrian (Diffreen) (roll number 6680)
- Location:
- Diffreen, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 149
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“There is a little bush on the back of Leawn mountain and it is called 'the fiddler's bush.”
There is a little bush on the back of Leawn mountain and it is called 'the fiddlers bush'. The fairies are supposed to dance around that bush every night. It is situated about twenty yards from the giant's causaway and is about two or three feet in height. It was the same height forty years ago and will never be an inch taller. One dark night Michael Parkes, Mulchaun, Gurteen P.O., Manorhamilton, was up on Leawn every later. At about twelve l'clock he heard somebody playing a fiddle, but saw nobody
- Collector
- Bridie Devaney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Mulkaun, Co. Leitrim