School: Ballinakillew (roll number 8433)
- Location:
- Ballynakillew Mountain, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Mary K. Nutt
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- (continued from previous page)was to be found in unexpected places, and he soon got poor again. A few years passed by and one day as he was going down the road at a place called Dinney’s Bray the lovely little Lady that he had seen in the fairies hall met him in the middle of the day. She said to him you kept the secret a long time Johnny. Looking up he saw a fading moon in the sky and as the moon faded the fairy queen seemed to fade away with it and he was left there standing alone.
- Collector
- Derrick Harron
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballynakillew Mountain, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Tom Deveney
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Laghey, Co. Donegal