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School: Slattagh (roll number 13879)

Location:
Moher, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
Brian Ó Baoighill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0256, Page 096

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0256, Page 096

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  1. Fairy Stories (continued)

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    it would be ill for her had she not a friend in our party when she came out to watch us the other night."
    Their youngest child Michael was often taken by force from his bed and left lying on the floor at the door, and a few years after he broke his arm which the local people believed to be the revenge of the Fairies.
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    “In a house of people named Elwood (who lived in Corrislira, near Strokestown) the people in this house were quite accustomed to hearing the cradle rocked...”

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    In a house of people named Elwood (who lived in Corrislira, near Strokestown) the people in this house were quite accustomed to hearing the cradle rocked in the kitchen in the dead of night and no one near it.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Girlie Walshe
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Culleenaghamore, Co. Roscommon
    Informant
    Mrs Tom Geelan
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrigeen, Co. Roscommon