Volume: CBÉ 0220 (Part 1)
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Location
Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0220, Page 0192
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- There is a house in Lambstown at the present time and the people who are living in it are Breens. Well this house was full of fairies and every night after the people going to bed they could hear doors banging all night and the fan would be blowing and there would be an awful lot of noise down stairs. Well they got the priest anyhow to bring these spirits or fairies out of the place and he came and he brought them all down to the bogs and as he was going down wan of them got stuck in a bush and he couldn't get it any father so he had to leave it there and then he couldn't bring the rest down but however the doors stopped banging in the night time but the fan can be heard blowing to this day. I often heard it myself and it would be turning around and all the people would be long enough in their beds. It is said that all the fairies will come back again when the name of a Breen will be(continues on next page)
