School: Leithead (roll number 5480)
- Location:
- Lehid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Diarmuid Ó Súilleabháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0463, Page 203
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- Once upon a time there was a woman very sick in Ardgroom One night her husband came upstairs to see her, and he noticed a great change on her face. The Doctor and priest called to see her next day. They found a great change on her and that she was swept. That night a fairy man appeared to her husband and said his wife was swept. He told him to go down to the strand that night and that twenty white horses would be a person riding on every one of them. He told him to take off the person on the last horse and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bergie O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bunaw, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Cornelius O' Sullivan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Bunaw, Co. Kerry
