School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 11_003
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- Fairies spinningA man was coming a journey one night. When he started his journey he heard grand music inside the wall like a spinning wheel. It continued inside the wall until it came to a hill and then it suddenly disappeared. The man kept going quickly until he came to his own house. When he went into his own house the cap was standing on his head with the start he got. He was as white as the wall. The people in the house asked what was wrong with him. When he had sufficiently recovered he told them of his strange adventure.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nora King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Tom King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
