School: Bun Machan
- Teacher: Íde, Bean Uí Chobhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)own home before it overtook them. Their father appeared to them again that night and told them to lift up the top stone on the wall and they would get the gold there. They went again the next night but the light was there. Their father appeared also and fought with the holder of the light. The eldest son got the money and the three of them ran home and lived in comfort to the end of their days.
- One night a man was coming home from a neighbours house. He went through a lios to make a shortcut but suddenly he saw a host of people dancing about the fort. He followed them around for about two hours but still he couldn't find a way out. At length he threw himself against the ditch from sheer exhaustion. Suddenly a girl in a blue dress stood beside him. She asked him if he would like to go home. He was so speechless with fright so he could only nod. She led him to a gap which he could not see before and he went safely home.
- Collector
- Michael Coffey
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballydowane West, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Mrs Coffey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 49
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Ballydowane West, Co. Waterford
