School: A Cnoc Buí, Drom Dhá Liag (roll number 9588)
- Location:
- Knockeenbwee Lower, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Ceallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)to her for some of the flax. She said she would spin it for her if she could know here name, if she could not the fairy would take here away So the woman was walking around the liss thinking of what she would do or how she would find out the farie's name. She heard the fairy spinning the flax and singing an Irish song. If the woman of the house knew that my name was "cos ag ceann" She would sleep the night sound. She came out of the liss the night after, and the fairy had the flax spun, and the woman told her the name. She asked her who told her and she said that she thought of it herself
- Collector
- Nora Ní Drisceoil
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lahanaght, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Domhnall Ó Drisceoil
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lahanaght, Co. Cork
