School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)
- Location:
- Abbey, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séan de Paor
Open data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Abbey (Naomh Feichín)
- XML Page 0274
- XML “A Story about a Woman who Had a Great Belief in the Fairies”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- About 500 years ago there lived in this village an old woman who had a very deep-rooted belief in the fairies and spirits. She used to say that in the night time when all was quiet the fairies used to come and assemble around the bed.
Herself and the fairies were so well acquainted that she used to spend hours in conversation with them. So strong was her belief in the existence of spirits that she often told the people that(continues on next page)- Collector
- Neil Conroy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygowan, Co. Galway
- Informant
- John Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballygowan, Co. Galway