School: Cortown (roll number 3113)
- Location:
- Cortown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Gabhann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0701, Page 053
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- (continued from previous page)again. Morrissey beat Thompson, the American boxer, and the Venicean boxer and the sheppard boxer.
- There was once a man who lived near Bray, Co. Wicklow. One night the fairies took away his one year old baby and left a sick baby in its place. A travelling tailor who was mending clothes was stopping in the house. One day when the wife was at the market of Bray the fairy child saw a fiddle hanging on the wall. The child got up out of the cradle and played a tune on the fiddle. The tailor heard it and he came from the room where he was mending the clothes. The child gave a cry and ran back to the cradle. When the woman came home from the market the tailor told her what had happened. She told her husband and the went to a hill near her home with a pitch fork bringing(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cookstown Great, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Kinsella
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cookstown Great, Co. Meath
