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1. Fairies (continued)

   

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   he was kicking football and got his arm broken and he was in hospital for a few months with it. Of course the old people had their own stories and adviced everybody not to have anything to do with it. or with anything that belonged to the fairies, and when speaking of the fairies or the banshee at the present day the old people would always speak in low tone as if they were afraid that the good people would hear their conversation and come and have revenge on them.
   The old folk also say that fairies are more numerous than lepracawns or luaracawn It is said that there is a lepracawn in (Polksmith?) to the present day and another in Shan. a place not far from Killurin

   

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   History Edit

   Date

   11 July 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   English

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Seán Dillon