School: Pitfield, Inis (roll number 11091)
- Location:
- Cloondrinagh, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Maonaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0606, Page 217
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- There was once a young man who used go in "cuaro" to a certain woman every night. The woman thought he was only a fool. She used always be going on to him.One night when the woman was joking him the young man told her that she was a lucky woman when the funeral she saw the previous night had not brought her.The woman said she was taking in clothes she had out to dry, on a hedge beside the road, and that she saw the funeral passing.She was very much frightened and she saw at the end of the funeral a horse without a rider.The man said he was with the fairies and that the horse without a rider was for to bring a sick girl that was in the place.The man told her that anyone they would meet would do in place of the girl and that, only for he being in the funeral(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Patrick Conlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Clare
- Informant
- James Conlan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Clare
