School: Achadh Caisle, Caisleán Ghriaire (roll number 14767)

Location:
Aughacasla North, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
S. Ó Téacháin

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The Magic Goblet

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0430, Page 012

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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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Collector
Cáit Ní Dharlington
Gender
female
Address
Coolroe, Co. Kerry
Informant
Thomas Moore
Relation
grandparent
Gender
male
Address
Coolroe, Co. Kerry
Language
English