School: Siolbhrain (Shelbourne) (roll number 5235 or 5484)
- Location:
- Gortrooskagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Síghle, Bean Uí Thuama
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0461, Page 049
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- (continued from previous page)on May-night and to stand beside the liss. Then to stretch out the enchanted rod as far as it would go and to sprinkle the holy water in a ring around him.The man did this, and in the middle of the night the fairies came out, each riding a horse. His wife was on the seventh horse! They went round the ring of holy water.When his wife saw him she jumped off her horse, and into the middle of the ring. All the other fairies are they passed round the ring said"Tháinig sé chun sise d' fhagáil." The man and his wife went home happily together.Three races? a hound,
Three hounds a horse.
Three horses a man.
Three men a deer,
Three deer an eagle,
Three eagles a yew tree,
Three yew-trees an old ridge,
Three old ridges from the beginning to the end of the world.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Bhuachalla
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Address
- Coolnagoppoge, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Seán Ó Buachalla
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Coolnagoppoge, Co. Kerry
