School: Scoil Mhuire, Béal Átha hAmhnais (roll number 11438)
- Location:
- Ballyhaunis, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: S.T. Ó Maolagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0107, Page 165
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- 1 When a man has selected the site of a new house in my district he puts a heap of stones at each corner of the foundation, if the stones are knocked during the nigh, it is a sign that there are fairies on that ground, so the man will not build on that spot. but if the stones are left untouched he will build there.
2 There are two little hills in one of our fields, one on each side of a sand-pit. The local people call them "The Fairy Hills", because when we cut the grass of them it mostly always rains for a few days.
3 About thirty years ago two men in my village were having a quiet smoke after their days work beside a fence. After a time their attention was(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joseph Cruise
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockbrack, Co. Mayo
