School: Killybrone (roll number 1798)
- Location:
- Killybrone, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Coyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 218
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- (continued from previous page)that he had seen his first wife and that she was not dead.
When the night came his second wife locked the door and would not let him out. The fairies found out that she was talking to her husband and when the night came she came through the gap and there was no one there.
The horse dashed on till he came to her own house. Her head was dashed against her own porch and her brains were knocked out, and that was the end of her. It was fairies that had done it.
- Collector
- Brigid Treanor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ardginny, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mr Edward Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killybrone, Co. Monaghan
