School: Kilmactranny (roll number 6385)
- Location:
- Kilmactranny, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Chasmháin
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- There was once a woman long ago and she had two children going to school, and they used to go through a forth and across a stile that was above the forth. One day a fairy woman came to the children's house with a red shawl and she was smoking a clay pipe and she told the children's mother that if the children would not stop going out on that stile that something would happen them. One day the children's father cut a bush and put it on a ditch and the next day it was brought back to where it was cut.
Another story about a little girl that threw out water in the night and the people says that the fairies pass during the night, and the little girl, the old people say she thred the water on the faries white dress and when she came in there(continues on next page)- Collector
- Tessie Mullaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carricknagrip, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Hanoria Gillhooley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Carricknagrip, Co. Sligo