School: Muclach
- Location:
- Mucklagh, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: S. Ó Néill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 009
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- A Fairy Story
Once upon a time there was a woman. She had a baby. He was always crying in a cot every time she went to town. When she came home they said we had great sport today. the mother asked the children what was the sport and they answered the child in the cot was playing the bagpipes and when they went in he was crying again. She was told to go to a woman named Moll Anthony. She told her to go a certain place and to bring a broom of heather with her and the third that would pass by to throw the broom at it. When she went home her own child was in the cot and the fairy child gone.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Éilís Ní Bhainín
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Clonagh East, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Mr Galvin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Clonagh East, Co. Offaly
