School: Doire Liath (roll number 14301)
- Location:
- Derrylea, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cuanaigh
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“One night as my grandmother's father was coming home across the fields from his brother's house he saw something bright like a coal of fire in the middle of the field.”
One night as my grandmother's father was coming home across the fields from his brother's house he saw something bright like a coal of fire in the middle of the field.
When he came near it he he kicked it with his shoe, and just then a piper stood up and began to play a tune on his pipes.
The man got frightened and he ran for his life, and he could hear the piper playing until he went into his own house.
- Collector
- P. Kerins
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corraun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Catherine Kearns
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82