School: Ceathrú Gabhann
- Location:
- Carrowgowan, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Brian Mac Dhuarcáin
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- (continued from previous page)him to follow them. He went in after them and saw them dipping their hands in a bowl of water and rubbing them of their eyes. He put one into the rubbed it of one eye.
When he was getting paid for the horse he could see a big crowd of fairies with one eye each and a crowd people with the other eye.
He went out and he could not see the house he came out of. He set out for home well satisfied with the price of the horse. He had not gone far when he met one of the fairies a riding on his horse.
Dunleavy said you made a good job of my horse. The fairies, fairy asked him which eye could he see the horse with, Dunleavy said he could see him with(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Mac Domhnaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bohola, Co. Mayo
