School: Cnoc an tSalainn (roll number 1746)
- Location:
- Knockatallan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: F. Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0955, Page 254
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- (continued from previous page)he also told him not to tell any body. He went back the next night and it was better than the first. Again the [] asked him back a third night and as usual he went. The same crowd was there and there was great sport and dancing. He knew a lot of the faces in the crowd people who he knew had been taken away by the fairies. Everyone was friendly with him but he never got near any body he knew to talk to them. When he was going away they warned him not to [] any one. But the next day he told some of his friends. The same day he was playing his fiddle and making porridge. When he looked the pot was boiling into the fire. He tripped on the beetle and fell into the fire and his bow hand was badly burned. He could never play the fiddle again.
- Collector
- Patrick Corr
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Corr
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Sheskin, Co. Monaghan
