School: St John's Monastery, Ballaghderreen (roll number 13709)
- Location:
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: An Br. P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 234
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The Piper and the Fairy
Townland:- CAstlemore
Barony:- Costello
Towns:- Ballaghadereen
County:- Roscommon
Related By:- Dominic Cryer. Ballaghadereen
Age:- 60 years
Spent HIs Life:- At Home
Got Story From:- Domininc Cryan Age 70 years
Written By:- Michael Cryan !13 years) Ballaghadereen
Date:- 17.10.36About the year eighteen hundred and ten there lived in (Castelmore) Castlemore an old piper. He was a very handy man. When he was drunk he used to knock down his house and he would have it built before morning.
One night as he was sitting at the fire a man came in and asked him to play a tune. (This was a fairy man and he should have played the tune) However he refused.
The next day he took down his pipes but he could not knock a sound out of them. Then he went to England. After seven years he came home. After a while the fairy man came,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Cryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Dominic Cryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Ballaghaderreen, Co. Roscommon
