School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0949, Page 065
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- One time there was a man who lived in Calliagh. One night he was coming home late. He saw fairies and horses on the road. They asked him to come for a ride and he said he had no horse. They told him to get a rib of flax. When she caught it, it turned into a horse.
The fairies told him they would leave him back if he would not speak. they came to a very big lake. The man's horse leaped the lake. The man said: "Well done, rib of flax". The man fell into the lake and had to walk home that night in the dark.
- One day a parrot fot out of a cage. It flew away until it came to a house where a fool lived. When the fool saw the bird of many colours on the house he said to himself :"I will put that bird(continues on next page)
- Collector
- James Ward
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Calliagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Tom Monaghan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 79
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Calliagh, Co. Monaghan
