School: Ceathrú na Leac (roll number 12273)
- Location:
- Ceathrú na Leice, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Bhig
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 138
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“One Nov. night, old Dennis O'Connor, a man who never drank a drop, was returning home from his brothers in Muckilty and he heard the grandest music in the world in an old empty house on the way.”
One Nov. night, old Dennis O'Connor, a man who never drank a drop, was returning home from his brothers in Muckilty and he heard the grandest music in the world in an old empty house on the way. What did he do only g'over an' look in the window. The music quit, and the light was quenched and he wasn't far gone when he was given the top of his head. He wasn't up again until he was given the top-o'-his-head again and all the way home the fairies kep' pushin' him on top-n-his head and the knees cut out n' him. When he came to the dure in his own house they had to open it for him & when they opened it he fell in fainted dead.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mrs Mary Small
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Corrán, Co. Shligigh
- Informant
- Margaret Cully
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 75
- Address
- An Cheathrú Riabhach (Cooper), Co. Shligigh