School: Moys (roll number 10837)
- Location:
- Moy Otra, Co. Monaghan
- Teachers: P. Dawson C. Mac an Ghirr
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 145
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“There was a poor woman living in Teirmacmoe and one day an old woman came to the house and asked for some meal and she told her that she was very poor and could not afford it, and the woman said to give her some and she would help her and she gave her som”
(continued from previous page)flaxhole and he could not find them so he went on till he came to the last flaxhole and then he knew what it was and he got afraid and he started sweating and he was running with sweat before he got home and it was the fairys because his woman let the children go up on the dresser and break the bowl and she was angry and she did this on the father and he went to bed and he did not rise for a month and he always took some of the children out with him because he was afraid There was three loan bushes at the back of the hill and the fairys always sung in the evenings there and they went away after the man got better and the people of that(continues on next page)