School: Adoon (roll number 11152)
- Location:
- Adoon, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Charles Flynn
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- Some time ago there were two old men on their céilidhe in a neighbour's house. At about 11 oclock they started to go home each going their own way. They were about two hours parted when they met again some distance from the house they had left. One of them were on the top of a calf-shed, and the other in a meadow.
They knew each other again, and seeing a light in the distance, they decided to go there. They were met on the road by a neighbour who put them right for home. It was said afterwards that they got on a stray sod.
The same men saw about twelve ladies dressed in white dancing in a field before them one right at about a eleven oclock. They went on the road before them until they came to a stream, and thent hey disappeared.
They were called Fairies or the good-people and the old people always said "God speed them"
- Collector
- Mary Alice Mc Gowan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Edergole, Co. Leitrim
