School: Knocktopher (roll number 7033)
- Location:
- Derrynahinch, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Éil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0848, Page 137
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- Once upon a time a man was visiting in a house near by. It was a very dark night and when it came near twelve oclock the man started for home.
The people of the house told him not to got at that time that it was a bad time of the night to be out.
The man said that he would have to go. He started off but when he was going along he noticed that all the place was changed.
He kept walking along but after a while he saw that he was in the middle of fairies. The fairies were very cross when they saw the man in the middle of their party.
The fairies got a rope and tied it around the man then they pulled him along.
When the cock crew they let the man off and all the fairies disappeared. It is said that when the cock crows the fairies disappear.
- Collector
- Mary Therese Heaslip
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs Heaslip
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knocktopher, Co. Kilkenny
