Volume: CBÉ 0106
- Date
- 1935
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Archival Reference
The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0106, Page 006
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“There was once a man living in the parish of Adamstown.”
(continued from previous page)changeling you have Tom Murphy”, says he. “When you go home” says the smith to Tom “tell him that the fairy rath is ablaze.” Tom got the plough-iron welded and went home. The child was sitting on the doorstep waiting for him and began clapping his hands with delight when he saw the plough-iron welded. “You got it welded at last Daddy” says he in the voice of a very old man. “I did my son” says the father, but when I was coming by Jim Doyle’s field I saw the fairy rath in one great blaze. “You don’t say”, says the child “that the fairy rath is on fire” and his two eyes opening wide. “I do, begor“ says the father. “O Lord” says the child “my bellows is surely burned”, and away with him through ditches and hedges in the direction of the rath.(continues on next page)