I got this from my grandfather Thomas Moore Coolroe Castlegregory Co. Kerry. There was a man in Cloghane whose name was William Jess. He was bound to a trade in Bally Macelligot. His master told him when ever he would have the horse fetched from the field in the morning, he would give him a three halfpenny grinder. Jess arose at 3 am in the morning and as he proceeded to the field, he saw in the distance a crowd of people shouting and laughing and pulling "geósadáns". When each fairy pulled a "geósadáns" he said "each bréag fúmsa", and immediately he was sitting on a lovely fairy horse. They were going until they landed in the capital of Spain. There was a wine-store
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