School: Leitir Mhór (roll number 15944)
- Location:
- Lettermore, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Eilís Ní Bhaoghaill
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- (continued from previous page)(the) one in the back of the girl's head, which never went to sleep, but he did not know this. When his music was finished and the young princess, to all appearances, asleep, a cow came out of the neighbouring "Lios", or fairy rath, and came up to Conn. Conn took off one of her horns and said "Little table rise, little table appear", and immediately out of the horn came a crowd of little fairies who laid a nice cloth and dishes complete, and a very nice dinner indeed, and then they went back into the horn. When he had finished, he took up the cows horn and said "Little table away"! and then everything disappeared into the horn, which Conn replaced on the cow's head. The spying stepsister woke up after a while but the fifth eye was awake all the time and saw everything. In the evening the princess told all she had seen. The(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mc Loone
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lettermore, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- John Mc Loone
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Lettermore, Co. Donegal