School: Murher (C.) (roll number 13541)
- Location:
- Maigh Oirthir, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Chonaill
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“There was a steward living at Smyths Moyvane.”
(continued from previous page)music. But before he left the fort, the fairies said to him not to ever play it in public.
When he came home he played it for his aunt, and she told him that his uncle played that, and it was a fairy reel. The fairies carried him out of the bed one night and left him outside the window.
He never played it again until there was a great dance one night, and all the player asked who could play a different tune and the man played the fairy reel. As soon as he did, the fairies came down the chimney and carried him away.
- Collector
- Margaret Stack
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Stack
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Gort Droma Sailithe, Co. Chiarraí