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School: Carraig na Heorna (2) (roll number 14976)

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Carricknahorna, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Sibéal Nic Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1028, Page 408

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    river. When asked where he had been the boy replied that he met a man who made him follow him step by step.
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  2. Fairies

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    One time a family in Bradley were building a new house. One evening when it was getting dark a woman came into the house and told the mother of the family – a Bessie McGarrigle, not to build the house any further. They paid no heed to her and built the house. When they had the house completed it fell. The people then believed that they had build the house one a “gentle place’ and that the fairies did not want them there.
    One time there was a
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie Mullen
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballintra, Co. Donegal