School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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“Where Michael Byrd of the Trim Road (locally Slanduff Road) is now living there used to be a forge.”
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- Florence Kavanagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- Michael Byrd
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Road worker
- Address
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
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“One night Johnny Mulligan (a carpenter who lived on the Slanduff Road in Walterstown Parish) went out to pick mushrooms around the fields at Slanduff.”
One night Johnny Mulligan ( a carpenter who lived on the Slanduff Road in Walterstown Parish ) went out to pick mushrooms around the fields at Slanduff. While he was picking a band of fairies appeared. They got so mad with him for picking the mushrooms that they surrounded him and roared at him to leave the mushrooms alone. Johnny got so frightened that(continues on next page)