School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- Long ago there lived in this district a famous fiddler named Michael OConnell who was nicknamed "Mickie Báinín." He went around to patterns and marriages and there played sweet music. One night as he was coming home from Macroom he heard a tune called the "ceól sidhe" being played by the "Dhaoine maithe" in the Gearagh, a wooded district near Macroom.
As he always took his fiddle with him he took it out and played without much difficulty the same tune as was played by the fairies. Just then a number of voices told him that if he played the "ceól sídhe" more than once he should inlist in their ranks. They(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donal Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Timothy Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Mountmusic, Co. Cork
