School: Na Hárda (Ardfield), Clanna Caoilte (roll number 1267)
- Location:
- Ardfield, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín, Bean Uí Ghrífín
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0317, Page 133
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- A StoryAn old Irish custom was to have enough of spring water in the house at night. The story is told about a house in Ardfield where the fairies visited about 150 years ago. It happened they had no water in the house. There was a pot of stirabout beside the fire and the fairies baptised the child with it. There was a woman sleeping in the house and she heard one fairy saying to another anyone that will eat that will die. The woman told the rest that were in the and they did not believe her and they said (they)(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Donovan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Dunowen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Denis Feen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dunowen, Co. Cork
