School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0883, Page 068
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- One night two men were coming home from a fair and they were passing by a rath owned by Mr Whitty and they saw a lot of fairies dancing in it. After that they were seen very often in the same tath.Another night there were two other men coming passed it. When they were coming past the rath one of them stopped to hear some noise in the rath the other man kept goining on. When the first man stopped he heard fairies singing in the rath and he started to sing with them. The fairies brought him in and gave him a bag of money. He went home with delight and told the other man he came back and heard them singing again but he had no voice and he started anyway. When the fairies heard him they brought him in and they put a hump on his back. He had the hump till he died.
- Collector
- Annie Roche
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Whitechurchglynn, Co. Wexford
- Collector
- Bessie Banville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Shanowle, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Ned Roche
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Whitechurchglynn, Co. Wexford
