School: Carn an Ríogh (roll number 11619)
- Location:
- Carrownree, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Éamonn Mac Énrí
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- Once upon a time in this district a man named John Fahy was living in a house his lone. There was a fore near the house were fairies lived. This day (this) the fairies came into his house and they decided to stay with him.One night they were going to bed, the fairies slept in a room for themselves and the man slept in another room. There was a partition (diving) dividing the two rooms and a window in the middle. When the man got the fairies asleep, he got up out of bed and looked out in a hole through the window. One of the fairies spied him through the window. He ran to the window(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Pronsíos Mac Canna
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrownree, Co. Sligo