School: An Chúil Árd (C.) (roll number 12588)
- Location:
- Coolard, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Liaghain
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- About fifty years ago there lived at Kilmorna a man named Martin Flynn.
One night at about twelve o'clock he was coming from a fair in Abbeyfeale and he was drunk.
The road on which he journeyed was not far from a fort.
He heard the fairies playing sweet music in it.
After some time he thought he heard a voice calling him to go in.
He went in and he was able to whistle the reel they were dancing and he danced and sang with them.
He then went home and he was trying to teach the reel to the people at home but they could not learn it.
- Collector
- Sheila Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockenagh North, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Walsh
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Knockenagh North, Co. Kerry
