School: Mohill (2) (roll number 8673)
- Location:
- Mohill, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Éamonn Bairéad
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0215, Page 207
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- (continued from previous page)moon the horsemen again came to his window. It took his two sons and some others to hold him down or he would have gone with them again.The spell of the fairies seemed to hang over Percival and his horse. In the following spring he was harrowing ground for oats on Currawn hill. Suddenly his horse stopped and cocked its ears. Percival could hear the sound of horses neighing in the lake below. Without warning, his horse started off down the hill with harrow and before it could be stopped horse, harrow and all were enveloped in the waters of the lake and never seen again.A poor man and his wife named Reynolds lived near Adoon. The man was taken by the fairy horsemen. His wife mourned his loss and more so because she had "a long weak family". One night a poor man came to the door and asked for food. She had not much to offer him, but set him down to the best she had. He noticed how(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eamonn de Bhairéad
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Robert Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Curraun, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Harman
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Curraun, Co. Leitrim
