School: Ráth Dairbhe (roll number 10001)
- Location:
- Radeerpark, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Henry Mc Kenna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0950, Page 414
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- (continued from previous page)They used to have a band, and would go over to the "lone-tree" and march round it. The fairies used to go in through the key-hole of the door and take things out of the houses. These things would not be missed. These fairies, if you followed them, would go into a cave in the ground, near the forth.These fairies took many young children and made fairies of them, but after a while they would leave them back. The mothers from whom they took the children wondered where they went, but after a while they would return. Often a batch of fairies got round a man and took him (and took him) away to the cave.One time these fairies got round a man and took him to the cave in the ground, and when they brought him down under the ground he found out that they had a house as tidy and nice as any other house in the country could be. When he reached the parlour, the table was set for tea. They gave the man tea, and plenty of every kind of bread to eat.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Walker
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Mc Gurk
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 53
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Clontreat, Co. Monaghan
