School: Island Parish
- Location:
- Baile an Átha, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
- Teacher: Seán Ó Móráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0805, Page 454
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- (continued from previous page)was supposed to be a Fairy Piper playing music every night on it.
- She is a small woman dressed in white with brown hair down to her heels. She is always combing her hair My Granny saw the Bean Sí in the chapel. She was washing herself in the tub of holy water. When she saw my Granny commg she ran away. She forgot her comb and my Granny found it and she had it for three years. Mrs. Guinan was with her. It was a big white comb. She never came back for it. It was in th(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Butler
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Átha, Co. Uíbh Fhailí
