School: Cnoc an Éalóidh (roll number 16562)
- Location:
- Knockanelo, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Neachtain
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- (continued from previous page)home. When he got home he went into bed and there he had to remain for months.
Scríobh Mícheál O Caomhaoin - There is a fort in our land and it is said there were fairies seen in it. Once a man waited out every night minding cows. One night he grew tired and lay down to rest under a bush. He saw another man on another bush beside him. The man had a gold watch .
The living man asked him for the time. The Ghost did not answer. The man asked again and again and the third time the Ghost said , "the day is for the living and the night is for the dead." The man went in home and he lost his sight.
Scriobh Mícheál Ó Caimhainn- Collector
- Mícheál Ó Caomhaoin
- Gender
- Male