School: Béal Átha na Sluagh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam P. Mac an Bháird
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- There is a great many forths in Ireland. I know a couple in Ballinasloe. There is one in the Mental Hospital lands but the best one I know is in Mr. Lombards land. On the Kilconnell road it is said that there was music heard in it every night. A boy was passing and the fairies caught him in a forth. Next morning the people were looking for him and they found him in the forth.
- Informant
- Frank Fallon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Brackernagh (Clancarty), Co. Galway
- In the year 1845 a blight came on the potatoes in Ireland. At first sight the Irish people did not know what this [ment] and they knew no way for the [frebension] of further destruction. As a result all the potatoe crop failed that year. All(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Christy Lynch
- Gender
- Male