School: Cross (roll number 13141)
- Location:
- Cross South, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Mártan Ó Colmáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0241, Page 152
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- (continued from previous page)near the fort. She was surprised but not frightened. When she reached the bridge she looked down, but could see nobody. Soon after her husband died.
Another time a woman was going to the townland of Cloonlia from Carracastle on a fine afternoon. She was crossing a field. Some workmen near by saw the same field filled with little people. They were play in circles round the field. The workmen saw the woman going towards them.
She had a parcel of bread with her. When she reached a ring of fairies she was stopped, she could not walk another step. She fully realised it was the fairies that stopped her, and she said, "oh, let me go, I am in a hurry and if it is bread ye want here it is to ye" and she opened the bread on the grass. The bread was not touched and after a while she parcelled it up again and walked away.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Paddy Clossick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Kilcolman, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mr Clossick
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilcolman, Co. Roscommon
