School: Baile an Leasa (roll number 15561)
- Location:
- Ballinlass, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Mhathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0037, Page 0215
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- (continued from previous page)of Redinagh Co Wexford. He heard voices shouting "Get a horse ready for me and another for me and he said Get a horse for me. Thinking to himself it was no harm. At the moment he was in the path amongst hundreds of little men.
They got a horse collar and it was turned into a horse. They put him up on the horse and they never stopped galloping over hedges and ditches till they reached the White Mountains in Co Wicklow. Men and horses disappeared like magic. The man said to himself. "You bless the horses".
He had to triumph home and by the time he got home he had not a Brogue on his foot. Ever affrettando (?) he used to make the Sign of the Cross passing the path.
- Collector
- Mary Canney
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Tobernaclug, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Mrs Canney
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Tobernaclug, Co. Galway
