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School: Clonmore, Teampoll Mór (roll number 12541)

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Clonmore, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Siobhán, Bean Uí Allmhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0547, Page 032

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    This happened in my grandfather's time. In a small field in our farm there is a large rock. Under the rock there is a crevice. On one Summer's evening my grandfather was strolling around. He saw a lot of little men hurling a ball around the rock. He rambled over to see who were they. As he was going over towards them one of them struck the ball towards him and as it came nearer to him he recognised it as a man's skull. He picked it up and fired it towards them, one of them hurled it in to the fissure of the rock and they all followed it. He often afterwards went to the field in the evening but never saw the fairies again.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Martin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonmore, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Thomas Martin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonmore, Co. Tipperary