School: Synge, Inagh (roll number 14440)
- Location:
- Glennageer, Co. Clare
- Teacher: Máirtín Flynn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0612, Page 382
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There is a man living in Cloonanaha and his name is Patrick Callaghan.
He sees a hotel in a field outside his house and the field is called Cnoc na mbuistear. There is a dining room and a bedroom in the hotel and a window for everyday of the year.
Nobody sees the hotel but himself. He can see the hotel when he is inside his own house. He sees people dancing and he can hear music there.
People stay up some nights until two o clock thinking thinking they would see the hotel and hear the music. They cannot see or hear anything.
He often sees a motor on the road and when moves in to let it pass it disappears.
He was hit and hurt one night last year and the people of the locality say it was the faries hurt him.
He is living still and is nearly 80 years.
