School: Drumrora
- Location:
- Drumroragh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mulligan
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- (continued from previous page)to buy drink in the town. The fairy man said to him "Hello Florence Galligan you have a half quarter of tobacco to smoke and a shilling to buy drink in the town". That showed that he could know what was going on everywhere. The "fairy man" lived in Castlerahan and Terence Galligan lived in Denn.
- There was a man of the name of Harry Coyle who had a field of oats ripe and could not afford to pay any "help" to cut it. The field was along a fort. One day he went out to cut some of it. At nightfall he went into get something to eat. When the moon got up he went out again. When he was lifting back a sheaf he looked round and what did he see but a lot of men cutting. The looked up and the hair began to stand on his head, and the men shouted "reap away Harry Coyle it was not(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Cecilie Farrelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Aghoutereery, Co. Cavan
