School: Graiguenamanagh (B.) (roll number 16311)
- Location:
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cuanáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0857, Page 389
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- (continued from previous page)she ran back to bed without saying a word.
Next morning she went to a fairy doctor and told her story. He told her to pretend she was bringing them to get measured for clothes. She was to carry them on her back in a shawl and to pretend to rest on Ballytiglea Bridge. Then she was to open her shawl and let them fall into the river. She did this and just as they reached the water one of them shouted "Bad luck to your advisers." They then took out bagpipes and began to play as they sailed away to the rath in a tin dish.N.B. Ballytiglea Bridge is a Bridge over the River Barrow midway between Graignamanagh and Goresbridge.
- Collector
- Michael O' Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graiguenamanagh, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- Mrs M. Maguire
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 84
- Occupation
- Widow
- Address
- Tinnahinch, Co. Carlow
