Volume: CBÉ 0406 (Part 2)
- Date
- 1937
- Collector
- Location
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- There's a cook in the farm house
near Halloran's Rock and he never stops crowing;
And any cook they get is always at it.
There is something bad in the water there ; and
they say the cook is always warning. Long ago
a great monster was in it and he used often
be seen coming out on the inch grazinf.
Wan time a soldier dived off the rock in
the water and he never came up nor the
body ever recovered. - If you dont interfere or meddle with the
fairies they often do a good turn. They would
guide one going home at night and protect
them from harm
There is a rath at Tobar a' Dúin and long
ago when we were children going to school
our mother and (every other mother) used to shake
rain on us the way the fairies couldn't
harm us
When they were building the pump at Tobar
a' dúin the whole thing used be (?)
down every morning. They watched it and twas(continues on next page)