School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0221, Page 339
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- (continued from previous page)be plainly heard. Besides the cars, there were horses and as far as the people who heard the hosting could make out, there was a man and a woman on the back of each horse. There was also great conversation going on, and it seemed to be carried on in a rather angry tone. Nobody could understand what was said, and several people who described it to me said all they could hear or make out was the words "Whip Whip." I have heard this story in several areas here about Cloone, and I have also heard it from a man from Mayo who told a similar tale. Could it be the last hosting of the Irish Fairies? I prefer to believe so, and sincerely regret their passing. After all, our forefathers got a "Kick" out of life that we with all our modern thrills can never hope to get. While thinking in the above strain, I wrote the following lament about the passing of the fairies, and incorporated in it some of the lore of this area which I have explained at the end of poem.
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Choinnigh
- Gender
- Male
