School: Tulchán (roll number 10097)
- Location:
- Tullaghan, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Guidhir
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- (continued from previous page)asked him could he cure her. The king told her that when she would go home to bathe the sisters leg and that she would find a pin in the ball of her leg. "pull out the pin and your sister will get better." The king then left her at home with the carriage.When the nurse went home she did as the king told her and the sister got better.About twenty years after the nurse was going through the town and she saw Flyertoc standing up against a shop window. The nurse walked up to Flyertoc and asked him how was the woman. Flyertoc didn't answer but asked her with what eye do you see me with. The girl said with my two eyes. Flyertoc blew into her two eyes and she was blind from that until she died.The nurses name was Bessy Semple. Flyertoc was a man who was taken away by the fairies and was made king of the fairies. His name was Kerrigan when he was a man.
- Informant
- John Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Agharroo, Co. Leitrim
