School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0811, Page 216
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Clonmacnoise
- XML Page 216
- XML “Taken by the Fairies”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- There was one time a man named Kilmartin living in Creevagh and when his wife died they said she was taken in the fairies. Well one night another man named Mc Guiness heard a noise at this window, as if some on was tapping at it. He asked who was there and a voice told him to go to the Blast of the Wind (Jim Daly’s gate) on Hallow Eve about eleven o’clock and there he would see a troup of fairies passing by from Stirabout Hollow. As the last horse was going by he was told to take up a grain of clay from the ground under his foot, and throw it at the woman on the horse, for that she was Kilmartin’s wife and she was taken away to mind the children of the fairies.(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Ann Kilmartin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly
