School: Robertstown, Naas (roll number 15655)
- Location:
- Baile Riobaird, Co. Chill Dara
- Teacher: P. Ó Harachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 173
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- Peg Pender
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 11
- Address
- Baile Riobaird, Co. Chill Dara
- Once upon a time a woman had a child that was always crying and crying. . One day she brought an old woman in to see what was wrong with the child. The woman told her to get a shovel and throw the child behind he fire. The minute she did this she saw her her own child smiling in in the cradle. The fairies took the woman's and left a fairy child instead.
