School: Currach Chluana (Croughclooney) (roll number 7885)
- Location:
- Curraghcloney, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0572, Page 080
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- (continued from previous page)should she see taking away the child but three fairy people. She ran after them, until at last she came to the lios in hot pursuit after the fairies. She caught the child by one hand and was trying hard to save it from them until at last the fairies had to give in.
The fairies said that the child while she would live that she would be lame and so would all her descendants while there would be one of them in the world. The family of the Crotty's are still there and the oldest girl is very lame.
There are still in parts of Ireland some black stones beside wells or ponds. It was on those stones that the Danes used boil their dinner with a little fire under them.
There is an enchanted lake a few miles beyond Clogheen called Bay Lough where a boy and a horse got drowned long ago. Every May morning a colt is seen there and all of a sudden he would disappear into(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Thomas Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Knockacoola, Co. Waterford
