School: Stranorlar
- Location:
- Stranorlar, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Bean Mhic Giolla Chomhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 62
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“Long ago, the people living in Ireland were very poor and the mothers had no change of clothes ...”
Long ago, the people living in Ireland were very poor and the mothers had no change of clothes for their children. So they always washed the clothes on Saturday night and had them clean for the week.
One Saturday night a woman had put her baby to bed and she was washing its clothes when she heard the loveliest music and the rocking of the cradle in the kitchen, when she went inside it stopped and when she came out it started again and it went on like this for a long time when suddenly she remembered it was the fairies or the wee-folk as the were called.
- Collector
- Anna Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballybofey, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Dan Mc Nulty
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 87
- Address
- Mullandrait, Co. Donegal