School: Allenwood
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0774, Page 175
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- (continued from previous page)thought it was them he meant. So they ran very quickly home. The two other lads got the buttons and went home.
- The old people say the fairies live in these forts. I often took a fishing rod from one and nothing ever happened me. The old people told me about a man's arm going powerless from cutting down a certain tree. There was a man cutting down a tree, which was a fairy tree and he shivered to death.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Dowling
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Allenwood Middle, Co. Kildare
