School: An Carraigín (roll number 13836)
- Location:
- Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Oireachtaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0255, Page 010
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- A fool lived in the plains of Rathcroghan in a scraw hut and he kept twenty halburt men around his castle. He worked occasionally assisting a butcher in the town of Rathcroghan.
On this occasion he was helping him to kill a bull and he asked the butchers for a part of the hide, that is, a strip from the top of the nose to the top of the tail for to make a whip for to beat the fairies on November Night.
There was a fort up from the hut where the fairies used to reside. He started up to this fort on Hallow Eve night and he saw a large castle inside in the fort and two men on the piers of the gate guarding it. He asked the two men where were the fairies to-night and they said to him that what loss was it to him where they were. With(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Ernest Hanley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lavagh, Co. Roscommon
