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School: Coolfore (roll number 10700)

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Coolfore, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
P. Ó Cuanaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0933, Page 306

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    your eye on him he could not get away but if you once took your eye off him he would disappear for ever. If you caught a fairy and tied him with a strong chain he would break it and if you tied him with a woollen thread he could not get away. There was a man long ago and he ploughed a fort and his stock all died except a sow. He went to a fortune teller and he told him that the sow would be dead when he would go home and he told him to stop ploughing the fort and the man did so and the animals stopped dying.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. leprechauns (~1,007)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Laurence Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Coolfore, Co. Monaghan
    Informant
    Mrs Mc Mahon
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    50
    Address
    Coolfore, Co. Monaghan