School: Scoil na mBráthar, An t-Ósbuidéal (roll number 6543)
- Location:
- Hospital, Co. Limerick
- Teachers: An Br. S. Ó Hannracháin Eamon Ó Grainséin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0514, Page 395
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- 38. FairiesOne time there was a man, who was fond of digging up moats. He found a gold box with the remains of a fairy king in it.
He brought it home, and in the night he heard strange noises in the room where he had the old king. He got up and went into the room where the noise was. He saw the old king alive, and all the fairies around him. They caught the man and told him that if he did not put their king back they would kill him. He put back the box and king, and he never dug moats after that morning. That moat is in Mr. John Cleary's land.Told to Eamon Cleary.
By Mr. John Cleary
Ballylanders
Co. Limerick,
Ireland.
- Collector
- Eamon Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr John Cleary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballylanders, Co. Limerick
