School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 110
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- What happened to Death a BicicDeath a Bicic's [?} was a stealing on the mountain and he went up at night to catch them. The fairies came round and put him into a barrel. A fox came round and he went smelling the barrel. Death a Bicic put out his hand and caught the fox by the tail. The fox began to pull and the barrel came down the mountain and rolled on the fox and he began to cry and the fairies came and took him out of the barrel. Death a Bicic went home and he only lived a few days with the scare he got on the mountain.
- Collector
- J. P. O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Tormore, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- John O Connor
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Tormore, Co. Sligo
