School: An Gleantán, Lombardstown
- Location:
- Glantane, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Colmáin
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- The old people in times gone by considered it very dangerous for people to sleep out in the fields especially in the month of May. If a boy or girl who slept out was ill afterwards they used to say he or she was interfered with by the fairies.
A girl in Shanavoher, Glantane, Mallow, fell asleep one Summer day when out minding cows. She woke up suddenly and saw coming towards her a very small woman "as yellow as the blossoms of the furze". The little woman had a little stick in her hand an said, as she turned around, "Aha my lady: I went near catching you". She then disappeared in a fort nearby.- Collector
- Joseph Healy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lombardstown, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Coleman
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gortmolire, Co. Cork