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School: Clochar Loreto, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)

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Navan, Co. Meath
Teacher:
An tSr. M. Colm
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0699, Page 122

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    Once there was a man coming home from his work one evening and he was drunk. He saw a procession of fairies coming along the street, he stood along the wall to let them pass. Some fairies came over to him to bring him away. They brought him into the Moat at Navan. Then they tried to make him eat, but he could not, because he knew they would keep him forever in the moat.
    It was a lovely place, music and dancing and everything of that kind. They tormented him in every way they could, and when they found he could not eat the put a hump on his leg and cup off his leg.
    Then the fairies brought him before the King and Queen of the fairies, the King and Queen took pity on the man, and they decided to let him go back to his own home and to take off the hump and give him back his leg. The man thanked the King and Queen for letting him
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josie Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Emmet Terrace, Co. Meath
    Informant
    Mrs Brady
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Emmet Terrace, Co. Meath