School: Killyfargy
- Location:
- Killyfargy, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: B. Ó Mórdha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0947, Page 059
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- (continued from previous page)of foot on him. This strange man was said to be following the young Catholic. The playboy just left the card party as the young man was entering Cavan. This playboy could go any place in a second.
- One misty night I lost my way in a field of my own behind the house there. I was staggering through it for a long time. At last I took off my cap, turned it inside out, and strange to say I began to make my way rightly out of the field.
- One night a man was going up the road home and as he was coming to Walsh's lane he saw eleven fairy cobblers. Two of them seemed to be cutting out and the rest were making boots. The bush where he saw them is there yet.
- Down near the commons there was a man and he used to be foddering his cattle every night. And every night he would see a man and woman walking about and them linked arm in arm. The man passed no remarks on this as he was seeing them every night. One night near Halloween this same man was out foddering and he saw this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Moore
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 70
- Address
- Lisnalee, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs O' Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lisnalee, Co. Monaghan
