School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Tír Eiltín, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)often threatened him afterwards as he walked that same road late at night and in the end he had to go to America to avoid them as it is said that fairies don't cross the water.
Some time after in an international competition in New York Mikie and a few others representing Ireland were beaten when suddenly he thought off the "ceól sídhe" and played it.
It made such an impression on the audience that they were speechless.
When they recovered they offered him hundreds of pounds but to play it. He refused and obeyed the "daóine maithe".
- Collector
- Donal Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Timothy Leahy
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Cnoc Amhráin, Co. Chorcaí
