School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0033B, Page 04_006
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“Once there lived in Bellharbour a boy whom the fairies used to accompany.”
Once there lived in Bellharbour a boy whom the fairies used to accompany. When he was asleep at night he used be playing a fiddle over his head. He lived in a beautiful house with his father, mother, sisters and brothers. One day as all the men were gone to the garden a woman and her daughter came to see the house and walk through it. On entering the house the daughter asked the mother of the house was there anybody in the upper rooms and the woman said no, Then the woman and her daughter went(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mannin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Mweeloon, Co. Galway