School: Staghall
- Location:
- Staghall, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: G. Mc Govern
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“Long ago there were many forts in Ireland.”
(continued from previous page)sticks and putting them on her arm. The woman spoke to her and the fairy began to spit at her. The woman went on to mass. She came home and after a few days she died.
A man was going to town one day. He was afraid of the fairies. He heard them coming on their horses. He hid in a ditch. When the first of them came he peeped in and laughed at him.
- Collector
- Mary Mc Keown
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Brankill (Flood), Co. Cavan
- Informant
- John Kennedy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Teemore, Co. Cavan