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_008
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“Once there lived in Bellharbour a boy whom the fairies used to accompany.”
(continued from previous page)that his people saw him very often. Int hat village there lied a woman who could work charms and they told her their story. Then she came to their house and she found lots of photoes belonging to the boy and she told them to burn them and they would never see him again. They did as she told them and they never saw him again.
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“There were devotions in a church one evening and there were two certain boys going there.”
There were devotions in a church one evening and there were two certain boys going there One of them used to be always laughing and talking and would never listen to the priest, while the other was not so bad One night as they were about(continues on next page) - Collector
- Peggy Moran
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mannin
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 67
- Address
- Mweeloon, Co. Galway