Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0231
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“There was a family of people living in Galbally by the name of Laffan...”
(continued from previous page)passed by the strange spot the very same as if something had happened.
Some of the old folk say that it was the fairies that was passing that time & on their way back to their rath or fort and they generally go back just before cock crow every morning. There is something curious about horses for they can always see there things before a human being.
There was a man lived in Galbally one time and it was believed that he had something to do with the good people. He was called the fairy man. Some people say that he was a fairy changeling. He was only a small man but he could do as much work as five or six men. He was one day sent out to cut a ditch of briars(continues on next page)