School: Oylegate (roll number 5918)
- Location:
- Oilgate, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Braoin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0886, Page 190
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- (continued from previous page)told the man that the bellows was whole fire wood so the old man brought home two bellows. When the old man arrived home the old woman began to quarrel and fight with him. So she told him to bring back the bellows and buy some coal.
- One time a man was going to the fair with pigs. He was coming home late that night. When he was passign by a field he heard a strange noise. He went in to see what it was and he saw fairies walking around in a ring. They were singing. "Saturday" "Sunday." So he stopped and began to sing. "Saturday" "Sunday" "Monday" Then the fairy came out, and said.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Denis Maher
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyvake, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- Mrs Maher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyvake, Co. Wexford
