School: Lathaigh (Laghey)
- Location:
- Laghy, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Proinsias Mac Pháidín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1032, Page 079
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- (continued from previous page)He sang them a nice song and they were pleased. the wee man told him when he brought him out. Before he brought him out he asked him what would he like best. He said he would like to get his cow sold. He told him he would get her sold and he raised his magic wand and took off his hump.
Then he left him out where his cow was feeding.
He went on to the fair then and sold his cow at twelve pound ten shillings.
When he went home from the fair the people did not know him. Then he told he was at a dance and he got off his hump.
There was another man named Mickie Dorrian who lived in the same townland.
He had a hump on him also he said he had to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maggie Gallagher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghs, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Tommy Gallagher
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Greaghs, Co. Donegal
