School: Páirc na Coille
- Location:
- Woodfield, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Énrí Ó Maolagáin
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- (continued from previous page)three men carrying a coffin. One of the men was tired and he asked John to help them. John did so, and when they came to the grave yard they told John they did not want him after that. John again started on his journey and he went to the same house as before. The fairies asked him had he any news and John said he had. He then related the story to the fairies and they were pleased to hear it. They gave him lodgings for the night and made a bed for him by the fire-side. But at day-break next morning the house and the fairies vanished and John was left lying alone in the Woodfield fort. John did not live very long afterwards as he fell ill the next everning and died(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Leyland
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Thomas Leyland
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crossna, Co. Roscommon