School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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- (continued from previous page)with the holy water she would get back her husband.
The next night the woman went to the gap and she was not long there when the fairies came galloping on their horses. She saw the man along with the fairies, and she tried to hit him but it failed her.
Then one of the fairies got down from his horse and killed both the man and woman and threw them in a cave.
Every night after the fairies were saw in the mans house dancing and singing. People say it is what the fairies wanted the house and they thought it was the only way they could get rid of the man and woman.
- Informant
- Peter Mc Cormack
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
