School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- A fairy woman
There were two man coming from town one night. Just when they were passing me a white thorn bush on the road side above our house in Lanmore what ran out before them but a small woman with a shawl on her head. On the moment she disappeared again. They continued on and when they went home they told what they had seen. It was very late at night when this happened.
I heard this from
Tom King
- Collector
- Martin King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom King
- Gender
- Male
