School: Coole (roll number 3936)
- Location:
- Coole, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: T. Mac Cormaic
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0719, Page 382
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- (continued from previous page)The next day she was going back to Cavan and she met the same fairy at Rathfuca road and she walked to Cavan with Mary Cook and the fairy never spoke.
A man was once going to Finea and he saw at Rathfuca cattle. The[y] ran the road before him. He had a horse and trap and the horse frightened. There was no driver with them [cattle]. The[y] went out on a gate and when he went up to the gate it was closed. It is told the[y] were fairys in the form of cattle because fairys can turn themselves into any form they like.
The above story was told to me by my Uncle Pat Coughlan of Carne, Coole, Co. Westmeath.
William Murtagh, Carne, Coole, Co. Westmeath.
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- Collector
- Sheila Murtagh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carn, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- William Murtagh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carn, Co. Westmeath
