School: Kilmacteige (B.) (roll number 15500)
- Location:
- Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Cuirnín
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- (continued from previous page)one eye. Says the man from Co. Sligo to the man from Westport
"It was you knocked out my eye"
"Ara what do you mean" says the man from Westport I never saw you till this day.
"Well" says the man from Co Sligo "do you remember a day you were cutting oats when the fairies were fighting over your."
"I do" says the man from Westport.
"Well you threw your hook in the air and I was with the Fairies that day, and the hook struck me in the eye, and I am blind ever since"
- Collector
- Tommie Curneen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- P. Spelman
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Kilmacteige, Co. Sligo
