School: Crummy (roll number 12691)
- Location:
- Crummy, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Rodacháin
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- (continued from previous page)dance but he would not. Tea was given to him but he refused it also.
At about two oclock the two girls came to him to come home. So he did and they left him back in the same place where they met him. He the went home. Next day he felt very sick and his parents who were worried sent for the doctor. The doctor came and when he went to the sick room he could see no one there. The boy had disappeared and was never seen or heard of since. They say he was taken away by the fairies.
- Collector
- P. Rodohan
- Informant
- Mrs O Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreen, Co. Leitrim
