School: Dromlachan
- Location:
- Sunnagh More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Giolla Choinnigh
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- (continued from previous page)a few words of what was a singing;
Cro-mat-e-ing Cro-mat-e-ing
We caught yis nicely here,
Cromateing Cromateing,
We'll hold yis nicely here.
Then there came out of the fort hundreds of fairies on white and black horses, and they surrounded the men and brought them along the road, and one of the fairies said "Its a sight to hear the quiddle quaddle of our horses hooves". They went along the road a good bit and then the head fairy said "Killgiblin! Killgiblin! we'll turn here, tell the "quatties" in front to be sure and turn here". So they all turned and went into the fort and it was about daybreak then and the father and son didn't see them anymore. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- P. Mac Giolla Coinnigh
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Kilkenny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male