School: Caladh na Feirsde (roll number 13481/2)
- Location:
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Luain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0433, Page 195
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- (continued from previous page)of playing cards. One night there was a crowd of men gambling and telling stories in a small house near Killarney.
One of them said that at a every tree near a burying-ground the fairies had a cave. The man of the house who was very poor took his son with him to a tree and found the cave. He rested on a stone by the tree for a while.
At about eleven o'clock the door of the cave opened and out came a little man. He asked them to come in and they did so.
The little man got a big stick and opened a large press with it. He gave the man and his son a suit of clothes each, and gold, silver, jewels and valuable vessels.
They bought a castle and lived in it until they died.
- Collector
- Mary Kelliher
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- John O Leary
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Callanafersy West, Co. Kerry
