School: Currans (C.) (roll number 4460)
- Location:
- Currans, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Nóra, Bean Uí Bhraoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0445, Page 048
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“Once a man was going home and he looked into a field and saw a crowd of little men playing...”
(continued from previous page)football. He went in and he took off his coat and began to play with them. He got tired and went home and was found dead the next morning.Told to Mary O' Sullivan by
Ulick O' Sullivan, Cragg, Currens,
(age 40 years)
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“Long ago there lived a man named "Seán Show" in this locality he was supposed to be in company with the fairies...”
Long ago there lived a man named "Seán Shaw" in this locality he was supposed to be in company with the fairies, they used to come for him by night and carry him long journeys with them. He was proved in many occasions for instance, three old men were going to Tralee one morning in the dark from this place.
As they were going through the fields, they missed their way, one of them fell, and(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eily Griffin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Michael Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Killeens, Co. Kerry