School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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Belief in Fairies
“Near a house in Ballaghameehan was an old fort and the people of the house were accustomed to throw ashes ect into it.”
Near a house in Ballaghameehan was an old fort and the people of the house were accustomed to throw ashes etc into it. They had one child, and great was their distress when she got a sore ear and began to pine away. They tried all sorts of cures, but none did any good till one day a little old woman came in, and told them she would cure the child on one condition. She made them promise not to throw anymore ashes into the fort, and then she took a thorn about an inch long out of the child's ear and in a short time she was all right again.
- Informant
- Johnston Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballaghameehan, Co. Leitrim