School: Altóir, Tuar Mór, An Sciobairín (roll number 12071)
- Location:
- Altar, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Henry Evanson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0287, Page 323
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- (continued from previous page)One of them hurled a ball into his eye and nearly blinded him.
He closed his eyes and when he opened them again the fairies were gone away with his cow.
Away with John after the fairies.
Sure enough he overtook them at the fort in which they used to live, and he caught his little cow by the horn, and the fairies offered him gold and silver if he would leave them the cow, but he said that she was his mother's cow and he carried the cow home, but the minute his mother said "God bless the beast", the cow sank down through the ground.
- Collector
- Thomas Hegarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gorttyowen, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Henry Allen
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 62
- Address
- Ballydivlin, Co. Cork
