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School: Convent of Mercy, Moville (roll number 9278)

Location:
Moville, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
Sr. Celestine Clarke
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1119, Page 216

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  2. Fairies

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    One day a man, who lived in Moville, was coming one moonlight night from a friend's house. When he reached a glen, called Mossy Glen, he saw a little man sitting on a clay fence. He was dressed in light green trousers and white coat and green cap. He jumped up when the man saw him and gave a strange kind of musical cry. At once a crowd of little men like him came running out of the fence, and quite suddenly they all ran
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