School: Scoil na gCailíní, Iomaire Buidhe (roll number 9818)
- Location:
- Ummeraboy East, Co. Cork
- Teacher: E. Bean Uí Shuibhne
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 373
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- One night a man was passing a castle which no one lived in. Anyone never knew who owned it because the people who had lived in it were dead. It was always supposed to be haunted. When the man was passing the castle a beautiful little fairy came out a gate driving a small white horse which was covered with jewels.
The man saluted the little fairy but she did not seem to hear him. After a while he saluted her again saying "Good Night". She answered him saying "Go away from that place. She also said that her people had lived there hundreds of years ago, and that some of them had been buried near the castle.
Then she told him to keep far away from the place or if he would'nt he would have some awful trouble. The man told the little fairy that he would come there in spite of her. With that the little fairy came off the horse and she told him that she would let him see and so she(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Goulding
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glantane More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Dan Lehane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 75
- Address
- Glantane More, Co. Cork
