School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh

Location:
Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
An tSr. Seanán
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  3. XML “Fairy Stories - The Thorn from a Fairy Fort”
  4. XML “Fairy Stories - The Family Who Could Not Churn”

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  1. One day when a man was cutting his hedge a little fairy man came up to him and told him not to cut it because it was joined to a fairy fort. The man said he would cut it because it was he owned it.
    As he was cutting it a thorn flew from the hedge and stuck in his eye and after a short time it got blind and from the badness of that eye his two eyes got stone blind.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Nora Keogh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    12
    Address
    Saint Patrick's Terrace, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mrs Keogh
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    32
    Address
    Saint Patrick's Terrace, Co. Tipperary
  2. Once there was a family and they could never churn their butter. So one day a little fairy woman came in and they told her they could not churn their butter. The little woman told them if they placed a little can of milk outside the cowhouse door after milking that their churning would be alright.
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