School: Clochar Loreto, An Uaimh (roll number 16100)
- Location:
- Navan, Co. Meath
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Colm
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0699, Page 142
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- 1. Once there was a little fairy who changed himself into a beggar. One day he came to s small hill. At the side of the hill there was a house he went over to the house and knocked at the door, a woman came out and opened the door. The beggar asked her for a few grains of meal, she said, she had not a grain.
In a few minutes she said, she would scrape the bins and give him whatever she had got. She managed to give the beggar a little bag full. The beggar thanked her and told her that her bins would be full to-morrow.
Next morning when the woman got out of bed, to her surprise she saw her bins full with meal.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Imelda Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Emmet Terrace, Co. Meath
