School: Cloonacool (roll number 4802)
- Location:
- Cloonacool, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Blioscáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0171, Page 039
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- One November night thirty or forty years ago a young girl was coming from the market and it was dark when she started for home. Her people were uneasy when she had not returned but they never seen a sight of her again. The following November night by father's grandfather happened to be coming home from rambling at midnight and when he was coming near his home he saw a crowd of people dancing and singing in the field beside him. He jumped across the ditch and went up the field. He then saw a girl coming to meet him and she spoke to him in his own name and then he knew that it was the girld the fairies had taken away a year before. She then told him not to tell anyone about meeting with her and she also said that she could never get back to her own home again.
- Collector
- Margaret Johnston
- Gender
- Female
