School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 214
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- There was one time a girl named Mionán who lived near Shannon-bridge. She was a fine looking girl and then she got sick and people said she was taken in the fairies. Well one Sunday in the Summer a man named John Flannery went out on the hills of Creevagh to look at his cattle. It was a very hot Sunday so he took off his coat and left it under a whin bush. When he came back not a bit of the coat could he get, and he looked high and low for it. So he had to go home without his new Sunday coat. He looked again for the coat during the week and asked everyone about it, but no one saw it. Well on the following Sunday he went out again to look at the cattle and when he(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Ann Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly
