School: Ardgroom (roll number 12261)
- Location:
- Ardgroom, Co. Cork
- Teacher: R. Ó Hurdail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0276, Page 352
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- There lived in Glenbeg a young girl. One night she stayed up minding a sick cow. She got turf to put on the fire. When she was putting it on the fire one of the sods was thrown at her by a fairy and it struck her on the leg and it got very sore.
The next morning one of her neighbours was on the mountain about six o clock to see his cattle. He met a woman and he said to her "Is not it early you are out" and she answered. "I was in Glenbeg last night. I did not like to be there at all because there is a poor girl there and I am afraid she will have a sore leg as she got a stroke from a fairy last night.
I would not like to do anything to her father but I had to do it. That woman was Maire Ní Murcadha who lived in Eyeries and was supposed to be in the fairies.
- Collector
- Anna Kelleher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bunskellig, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Timothy Kelleher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bunskellig, Co. Cork
