School: Clonfinlough, Athlone
- Location:
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: E. Ní Mhionacháin
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- (continued from previous page)near him. Then they stopped and an old lady came out and said I wonder who will help us to turn the handle, and they all shouted who will only calling the man by his name. They brought him over to the place, and warned him that if even a hair of the old man's head was burned that he was in for the same. The man was not two minutes turning the handle when the old man was burned up, he got frightened and ran away as fast as he could with the ball of yarn. He went into a little house in the fields and told what had happened to the people of the house. Ha said the woman of the house you are lucky to get away so easily, I know several people who were taken in the fairies by standing to look at them. The man was glad to get away and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ciss Edwards
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Clonfinlough, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- John Loonam
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 93
- Address
- Garbally, Co. Offaly
