School: Baile Deasún (B.)
- Location:
- Ballydesmond, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Mac Giolla Phádraig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0359, Page 051
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- (continued from previous page)to the baby but, on any account she was warned not to leave it touch her skin. Her eye got itchy, and she rubbed her hand to her eye but on doing so the oilment touched her eye. She could see all the fairies of the fort. When she came out of the fort she saw it was the beam of a plough the man for the horse. She was afraid to sit up behind him on the plough. He told her not be a bit afraid. When she sat up, the plough jumped the river and they went home like the wind. She went a fair in Millstreet about a week after and she saw the man who took her to the fort walking up and down the street.
- Collector
- Patrick Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Doonasleen North, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Breen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Doonasleen North, Co. Cork
