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School: Killadangan (roll number 4854)

Location:
Killadangan, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Bean Uí Domhnaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0138C, Page 03_011

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    An old man from the village told me this story which I shall describe to you. One day a man went cutting rushes by a lake side, he stopped all day at the lake cutting the rushes until it got dusk.
    Then he returned home and on his way he saw a lot of little bright lights shinning around a hay stack. The man said to himself them are fairies, and with that, "Be Gobs, a great lot of cattle and horses galloped apass him
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joe Scahill
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloonagh, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Joyce
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    83
    Address
    Prospect, Co. Mayo