School: Sheanmore (roll number 16197)
- Location:
- Sheeanmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Dhonnchadha
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- There is a story more than a thousand years old in the book of the Dun Cow, which relates how Prince Connla of the Golden Hair, son of the great king Conn the hundred fighter was carried off by a fairy from the western shore in a crystal boat to Moyhill. One day, as the story relates while the king and Connla and many nobles were standing on the sea shore also at of shining crystal approached from the west. When it had touched land, a fairy like a human being and richly dressed came forth from it, and addressing Connla, tried to entice him in it. No one said
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- Bríghid Ní Ódhra
- Gender
- Female
