School: Carrowmore (roll number 1214)
- Location:
- Carrowmore, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Gabhann
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0172, Page 400
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- Once upon a time a man had a very pretty wife. When ever young people died at that time the people believed that the fairies had taken them away. So when this man's wife died the people thought that the fairies had taken her away. Very early one morning the man went out to the field to catch his horse. He had just gone out when he saw his wife coming running across a nearby stream and the fairies with her. He had a bridle in his hand and he struck his wife with it and she fell. He took her up and brought her home. He saw that her toes were worn dancing with the fairies. She told him she used to come in every night and eat the cold potatoes off the basket in her own house because if she had eaten the fairy food she could never return.
- Collector
- Mary Henry
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloondrihara, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Dominick Henry
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Cloondrihara, Co. Sligo
