School: Clonoose
- Location:
- Clonoose Big, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Gráinne
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0986, Page 221
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“In olden times it was dangerous for good looking men or women to be out at night because the fairies would bring them.”
In olden times it was dangerous for good looking men or women to be out at night because the fairies would bring them. Once upon a time there lived a woman at Callanagh Crossroads. Fairies brought away her child and left another in its place. This child had a very large head and a thin neck like a lead pencil. Everyone wondered how it could hold up such a head. He would be out on the roads and he seemed to know every-one. He was called Lara Lee. If people came from twenty miles away he would know them or could tell them all that happened in their own country.