School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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- There is a white thorn fairy bush outside Loftus's old house in Creggsundarragh. One night Martin Kerrigan of Knappa-Beg was looking out the door and he saw a blaze of light over all the bush. He kept looking because he was not afraid. The next place ha saw the light was on a hill on his own land. He did not know how it got to that hill. It stayed there for about a half and hour playing around a rock on the hill. Then it went down behind the hill and disappeared.
I heard this story from Julia Kerrigan, Knappabeg, Westport Co Mayo 23.11.1937
- Collector
- Eileen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Julia Kerrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knappagh Beg, Co. Mayo
