School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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- (continued from previous page)the fort she thought the weight of the world was down on her. She began to run and when she arrived home she began to sweat. She went to bed and when morning came she was all covered with finger-prints. All her body was black and blue. She was in bed for six months before she was in perfect health. When the doctor came he told her the fairies nearly took her away.
Sometime afterwards Mrs Murphy was going home and he was going through a wood. She was about half way through the wood when she saw a coffin in front of her. She got a weakness and she fell into the coffin. Her husband found her next day and she never went outside her own door again until she was taken out when she was dead.
- Collector
- Willie Fouhy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Informant
- Mrs Fouhy
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Meadstown, Co. Cork
