School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh
- Location:
- Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Seanán
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0535, Page 239
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- 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.
- 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.(continues on next page)
- 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
