School: Bellurgan, Baile Sheinicín (roll number 16249)
- Location:
- Bellurgan, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Mac Duinnshléibhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0660, Page 134
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- 3.In Jenkinstown there lives a man whose name is Hugh Finnegan better known as "Hughy Peadair". One dat, when a little boy playing near his home he was surrounded by little men, The little men asked him to go away with them. HE did not want to go with them but he was swept off his feet. He was landed at the foot of the Cooley mountains where they began to play football. He was then taken to some other place where all the eatables that could be marked or made were laid down. The little men forced him to eat something but he would not touch anything. A voice kept telling him that if he would eat anything he would never see his home again. This voice is said to be that of an angel. This man is living still but he never speaks of this to anyone. This story is well known in out locality. Some people believe it was to his dead brother that this happened. Most people think it was Hugh it happened to. This story was obtained by :-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lena Dullaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Jenkinstown, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Thomas White
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Jenkinstown, Co. Louth
