School: Killeenkere
- Location:
- Killinkere, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 001
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“In the townland of Kilmore in the house where the O Reillys once lived...”
In the townland of Kilmore in the house where the OReillys once lived the family of Micheál Mór Ó'Loinsighe the ancestor of the present family of the Lynches of Enagh also resided for some time and his farm extended from the Gub to Poll na Sceathóg.
Micheál Mór had a dream three nights in succession that his baby boy was to be taken away by the fairies about midnight and that if he would stand at the room window he would see a woman enter the house and hand out his baby to another fairy woman who would be waiting outside.
He was told in the dream that he could save his child from being taken away by going to the window himself and when he would see the child handed out to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernard Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan