School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)
- Location:
- Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- Long ago there lived a man by the name of Dick Collins from Gurtacrissane, Listowel. One night he was going home and he was half drunk. He went into the forge field in Greenville and faries were playing a hurling match there. They asked him had he any story and he said he had none. One of them gave him a clout on the back and told him to go home and that he would have a story in the morning. When the man got up in the morning he had a hump.
- Collector
- T. Granville
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lios Tuathail, Co. Chiarraí
- Informant
- J. Mahony
- Gender
- Unknown
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Gort Curraoin, Co. Chiarraí
- One night a man by the name of Dan Connor from Greenville Listowel was passing the forge-field in Greenville and a hurling match was going on inside. He went in and one of them hit him on the back with his hurley. He came out of the field again and he was hardly able to walk home. For a long time after that he was not able to go out of bed with a pain in his back.(continues on next page)
