School: Gaddyduff (roll number 16642)
- Location:
- Gaddyduff, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: P. H. Kavanagh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1121, Page 95
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- Long ago in Ireland the fairies were numerous. About that time there were a man churning. Before long one of the hoops came off the churn and the man was trying to put it on again. At that time who should come in but a fairy man. The man told him to quit putting on the hoop. So he gave him a horse hair and he told him to put the hair around the churn. The fairy man said "Come all to me, Come all to me three times. He told him to keep the hair all the days of his life and he would have butter and milk go leór. And so he had for all the days of his life he kept the hair until he died. The country man remembered the fairy man and the hair.There was a man one time and he was a good player of the fiddle. He was bidden to every wedding to play upon his fiddle and make merry. He was an unmarried man. The man went(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Grant
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Tanderagee, Co. Donegal
