School: Clonoose
- Location:
- Clonoose Big, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 219
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- There was an old woman who lived in Kiladream whose name was Kitty O Hara. One evening at nightfall she went out to put in her ducks. She saw a whole party of little men in the field.
One of the fairies had a magic wand in his hand and he commenced to turn the bouchalan's into horses and they had one to many and the leader asked. "Who will mount this horse" and the rest of them answered "Who but Kitty O Hara." They brought her to Sheffield in England and into a big mansion where there was a man over-board. She saw alot of people whom she knew. One of them came up to her and told her to eat nothing(continues on next page)
