School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)

Location:
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Liam Ó Catháin

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Fairy Animals

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 165

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Fairy Animals

One night a man was coming home from a wake.

One night a man was coming home from a wake. It was about twelve oclock. He had to go up a boreen to his house. It was a very lonesome place. There was a gate at one side of the boreen, and when he was above the gate he heard the bushes shaking. He looked at the bushes and he saw a rabbit sitting on the road. His two eyes were shining like two lamps. He used be jumping up very high in the air. While he was jumping, the man got a few stones but he could not throw them he was so much afraid. He had a Rosary Beads in his hand and he made the sign of the cross and the rabbit vanished. He went home safely but when he was in bed he heard a voice saying three times, "Are

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Collector
Kitty Leahy
Gender
female
Address
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Informant
Michael Leahy
Gender
male
Address
Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
Language
English