School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 12_041
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- One night a young fellow named Joyce was coming home from Westport when he met a man and a horse at a sand-pit about Knappa. The man kept talking to him and the boy never dreamed but that he was talking to a living being. At last the man pulled a bottle of whiskey out of his pocket and asked the boy to have a drink. After awhile the boy took a drink and then another until finally he finished the bottle between himself and the fairy man. Then he asked the boy would he come to a dance. The fairy man told him where the dance was. The boy said he had no means of taking(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen King
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lanmore, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- James Scahill
- Gender
- Male
