Scoil: Bun Machan

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1. The Grandmother's House, the Holy Well and the Fairy Bush

   

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   Once upon a time, many, many years ago there lived in a tiny mud cabin an old man and his wife. Their children had all left them and gone to earn their living in other lands so the old couple often felt very lonely. Close to their house there was a deep well and near by a tall tree. After some years the man died and the old woman was very lonely indeed because she had no friends near by. After a time no one knew exactly how it happened, the place got the name of being haunted. The figure of a man used to be seen very often near the well. One night the old woman herself saw a man walking around the well. He had a Prayer Book in his hand and a Rosary Beads around his neck. The woman screamed when she saw him and he said to her "Do not fear me old woman," and he began to talk to her like an ordinary man. When she saw him so kind her fear left her. She asked him what he was doing when she met him. He answered her saying, "My dear woman, it is a sad story. I was a priest when I was living and a crowd of selfish men killed me and burnt me on that bush there. I am praying for those people now," then he disappeared. The woman made known the story far and near and the bush was called the Fairy Bush; the well was the Holy Well,

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   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Bridget Fleming

   Inscne

   Baineann

   Seoladh

   Baile an Airid, Co. Phort Láirge

   Faisnéiseoir

   Maurice Walsh

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Cnocán Machan, Co. Phort Láirge