School: Coill Chláir (roll number 14276)
- Location:
- Kilclare, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Treasa Ní Oibeacáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0211, Page 244
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- Kit Mulvey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Garvagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Mulvey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Address
- Garvagh, Co. Leitrim
- About forty years ago Mat Curran was building an outhouse. There was a fairy fort in his land. One evening a little red man came up to him and said "Do not build your house there. Build it in one foot farther. The man kept on working and when he looked again the red man was gone. It(continues on next page)
