Volume: CBÉ 0407 (Part 2)

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1. Siabhra with Red Box on His Back

   

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   Now, Joe its' your turn.
   My father saw a little man near his own
   house many years ago. ... Yes, perhaps he was com-
   ing from the fort or more likely going from [?] fort
   to Kilbrides' Ring. My father saw him in the bóithrín
   first. He was a very small little man with a red
   [?] on his back. My father never lifted an eye off
   him as he (sé sin) walked along beside the ditch. He kept
   his eyes glued on the box until it turned into the red
   flowers of the fur(ze)-bushes. Then it turned yellow

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   Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.

   History Edit

   Date

   22 October 1937

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seosamh Hammersley