School: Béal Átha Gearr
- Location:
- Ballygar, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Labhrás Ó Síoráin
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- (continued from previous page)wondered at this for there were no gates there when she was coming down The next thing she came across was a sheet and it spread out on the ground. The woman kept going until she reached a stream and she crossed it for the fairies cannot follow you when you cross a stream. The woman then saw a light and she walked towards it. The light came from John Grealys house Ballaghlea. The woman came out on the public road and went home. It was three o clock in the morning when she came home
- Long ago in the district of Castlefrench there was a man coming from playing cards one night one night. This man heard a child crying as he was passing by a house. As the man came nearer he saw that some one was trying to put the child out through a window and he also saw that the child had a gag in his mouth to stop him from crying. The man took the child home with him. Next morning the father of the child came to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Miceál Mac Giollacomáin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Barnacurra, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Máire Ni Ghiollacomáin
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 71
- Address
- Barnacurra, Co. Galway
