School: An Clochar, Oileán Ciarraí (roll number 14952)
- Location:
- Oileán Ciarraí, Co. Chiarraí
- Teacher: An tSr. Caoimhín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0447, Page 202
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- Long ago a man and his wife lived near a fort. One night the wife got ill. When she was asleep she was taken away and an old lady put instead. When the man got up in the morning he went to search for his wife. He met a man. The latter told him to meet her in the fort at midnight on Friday and to make a bow of strings and twigs and to beat when she would come out. He did as he was told. When he went to the fort he saw his wife on the horse with fairies. He Hit her with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eily Horan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Horan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oileán Ciarraí, Co. Chiarraí
