School: Stranorlar
- Location:
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Chomhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 105
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“In the townland of Meenavoy there is a fort and near this fort there is a house.”
In the townland of Meenavoy there is a fort and near this fort there is a house. One day the woman of the house was all alone. A little woman came in and asked her for a bowl of oat meal. The woman of the house was very frightened because she had never seen a woman so small in all her life. The little woman wore a red dress and red shoes and a little red and black shawl. She gave her the oat meal. And from that day the barrel was never empty. The same little fairy woman came to a woman and asked her for the loan of her shawl. The woman gave it to her and the next day she found it nicely folded lying on her door-step
- Collector
- Shiela Rowan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- James Mc Menamin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal