School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 068
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“About seventy years ago in my home there dwelt a man whose name was Mick Connors.”
About seventy years ago in my home there dwelt a man whose name was Mick Connors. At twelve o'clock every night the fairies used to call for him and he used to go on horse - back with them his horse being a buachalan.
There was a large stone opposite the door which he called his throne and while he was sitting on this stone he could tell all tell all that was to happen in the coming generations.
In the neighbourhood there died a woman suddenly and it was believed that she was taken away by the fairies. Her husband came to Mick to know if he could get her back. Mick told him that she was with the fairies every night riding on horse - back with them, and that they would pass through his barn on a certain night after twelve o'clock. He told him to stand one side of the back door and to get another strong man to stand opposite him, and as she would pass through on the fourth horse to seize her and hold her and he would have her back. But the man being too nervous would not do it and so it was believed that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Smith
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr James Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan