School: Allenwood, Robertstown (roll number 1712)
- Location:
- Allenwood, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 062
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“Long ago in olden times when people believed in fairies...”
(continued from previous page)never was let around Allenwood after that.
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“Long ago people believed in fairies very much.”
Long ago people believed in fairies very much. When they got a weak child they thought that the fairies left that instead of their own child and they lit a great fire and started to let on to burn the child thinking that the fairies would give back the child. - Collector
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“If a person gets married twice...”
If a person gets married twice the person that got married the the second time if a bit of bread is got from them it will cure the whooping-cough.