School: Iorball Sionnaigh (roll number 16923)
- Location:
- Scotstown, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0956, Page 128
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you are a good child and you have many good friends among us."
"Thank you mam",said Peg.
"We ought to show her to the King",said one fairy for fairies they were.
"Yes!Yes!"said another old man.
Peg thought that she had seen him before but she was not sure.
"Now",said he,"come with us,Pegeen,and you'll have the oldest of all drinks and the newest of all foods and dances and singing goleor".
"But I have to go home and bring the goat with me",said Peg.She was a little frightened but she did not admit it.
"We must take her with us so",said a little man in red.
Then they began to dance round her in the form of a circle.Peg looked at them.She was not afraid of them now but she wished they would let her go.But how beautiful their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paul Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Bellanode, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Mrs Hogan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bellanode, Co. Monaghan
