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School: Calry (roll number 10473)

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Colgagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Róisín Mhig Ualghairg
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0159, Page 124

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    “One day a woman strapped her baby in a cradle and went to town.”

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    One day a woman strapped her baby in a cradle and went to town. When she came home she noticed something wrong about the child. She went to a friar and he read an office for the baby He told the woman to stand at the door in the evening and shout "the fort is on fire". She did so and the baby in the cradle said "What belonged to me is burned" Then the strange child went away and her own came back.
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    “There once lived a man whose daughter was taken away by the fairies...”

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    Language
    English
    Informant
    P. Rooney
    Gender
    Unknown
    Address
    Formoyle, Co. Sligo