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1. Essay on Fairy Tales (continued)

   

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   a stray sod. The next morning the men came out on a road near the town of Cavan. They came home and when they looked at the oats, it was not cut or interfered with at all.
   There is the remains of a large house on ''Trumero'' road. It is said very poor people lived there long ago. One of the men who owned the house used to go to some other house a short distance away. This night he was crossing the fields on his way to the house and as he was crossing the stile he met a fairy. He said to the man you will have a very strange dream to night, the fairy walked with the man for a long distance and never stopped laughing.
   That night he dreamt that as sure as there would be four blackbirds on his ridge of potatoes the next morning there would be a treasure of gold or a lot of money in the centre of a fort in some field near the Crookedwood. They went the next morning and the four blackbirds was [were] on the ridge of potatoes. He then suggested for himself and a few neighbours from

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. public infrastructure
            1. roads (~2,778)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Sheila Murtagh

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Carn, Co. Westmeath

   Informant

   William Murtagh

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Carn, Co. Westmeath