School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 16_013
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- Many years ago there was a fair in Castlebar and a man and his wife were going to it with a cow. The man went with the cow about five o'clock in the morning. When the woman had some of her jobs done she went.
She took a short cut across the fields. It was very early in the morning and when she was passing Connelley's fort she heard a child crying and fairies dancing and laughing in the fort.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Michael Kearns
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
