School: Ballinard (B.), Cnoc Luinge
- Location:
- Ballinard, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0517, Page 069
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- One night there was a man coming home from town at midnight. He was coming along the road and what should he see but a crowd of little men hurling in the field now owned by John Joe Ryan. The field is a the back of the house on the left hand side of the road. He went in to the field and one of them gave him a hurley and he began to hurl with them. After an hour he heard a bell ringing and all the little men vanished. He felt the hurley getting very light and when he looked at it, it was only a weed.The old people named the field "Páirc na Sídhe" but the young people never call it by that name.
- Informant
- William Lavery
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinard, Co. Limerick
