School: St. Mary's (B.), Droichead Átha (roll number 15125)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: A. Mac Uidhlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0680, Page 450
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- (continued from previous page)have more the next day and so on", and the old woman went away with the meal.
The woman who gave the meal, her store increased but the woman who refused was taken by the fairies and kept for two and one-half years and she warned never to tell any-one where she was kept.
When she looked at any-one she'd have her hand over her eyes and she'd look through her fingers, God Bless the mark, as if she was afraid.
One night she toult the woman of the house where she was kept by the good people.
Next day as she was thinning the turnips in a field she was taken by the good people and was never seen again.
- Collector
- Brendan Mc Quillan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Old Hill, Co. Louth
- Informant
- Mary Meehan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Sampson's Lane, Co. Louth
