School: Currach Saileach (roll number 13800)
- Location:
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Séamus Mag Fhloinn
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- There was once a girl dying in a house and the people sent for the priest and as the priest came he overheard some music and he stood to listen and it was so charming as he missed the dying girl. The girl was dead when he got there. It is supposed that the song was to stop the priest from going to the dying girl and on the priest's return there was a flag left at the spot where he heard the music. He lifted the flag and under it was three crocodiles and some people said it was the devil.
- Collector
- Jack Lafferty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Mrs Bridget Lafferty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Curraghsallagh, Co. Roscommon
- There was once a man and he was going to a fair with a cow and the morning was dark. When he came to this big bush he was taken by the fairies. He was a great fiddler. The fairies handed him a fiddle and he played a horn pipe. Then they handed(continues on next page)
