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   “Long ago the fairies used to travel from the North hills at the White mountains on to Mooretown mote, on to a cave in Rathbran where they would join with others, and begin dancing and singing and playing all sorts of music with pipes.”

   

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   Another day a man was passing a crossroad. he saw a crowd of fairies dancing and he began to dance with a red haired girl and she told him what ever they said not to speak, and they were all getting up on horses and they put him on a calf and told him not to speak, when the were crossing a river above Drogheda called the Nanny, them all jumped, and the calf was last to jump, the man said then, speak or speak not that was a good jump, for a calf, he was then left riding a bultran.

   

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Birch

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Leabby Cross, Co. Louth