1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Athy (Christian Bros.)

School: Athy (Christian Bros.) (roll number 16705)

Location:
Athy, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Br. Ó Fiacha
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0782, Page 033

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0782, Page 033

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Athy (Christian Bros.)
  2. XML Page 033
  3. XML “A Fairy Blast”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. A Fairy Blast

    Share Share Post
    I heard that one day near Athy a man named Murphy went out to cut down a fairy tree near the moat. And when he was cutting down the tree he suddenly got blind and he said to the other man who was with him “what time is it. The other man said “Half past eleven”. The blind man said to him “It is half past eleven in the night”. So the man helped him down and when he got home he could see again.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Antony Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathstewart, Co. Kildare
    Informant
    Tony Byrne
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Rathstewart, Co. Kildare