School: Cluain Fhada (roll number 15091)
- Location:
- Cloonfad More, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Thighearnáin
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- (continued from previous page)as their son had just died. He said, "He must not be dead, he is in the fairies fo I met them." So he brought them and to the coffin and they opened it and the son jumped out. The people all went home rejoicing and lit a sheaf of straw and put it under the bed of the supposed corpse and he flew out the window in smoke. They all believed "the blessed iron" saved their son from the fairies and they lived happily for years after. Great Grandfather always told this for a true story.
- Collector
- Kitty Callaghan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahagboy, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Brigid Mc Grath
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Grange, Co. Roscommon