School: Druim (roll number 16557)
- Location:
- Drum, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Dhubháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0051, Page 0282
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- (continued from previous page)A certain man once went for a cure to a wise old woman, whose name was Biddy Early. She lived near Feacle in County Clare, and people said that she posessed magical powers.
She asked the man what kind of windows were in his house, he said they were straw-mats. She told him to go home, and put in glass windows, because the straw-mats were the cause of his trouble, as the fairies had power over them. He did so, and was cured.Delia Rafferty,
pupil (age 14 years)
Larraga,
Loughrea.Information obtained from my mother Dora Rafferty, 2 years ago.
43 yeas of age then.
- Collector
- Delia Rafferty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Larraga, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Dora Rafferty
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Larraga, Co. Galway
