School: Coolcappa, Árd-achadh (roll number 11955)
- Location:
- Coolcappagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Shíthigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0501, Page 235
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- About thirty five years ago, one afternoon a lady was seen at St. Kyran's well. Three men who were working on the railway, nearby saw her. They beckoned and called her but she took no notice of them.
One of them said that he would go up to her. He went and when he had arrived she had disappeared. He looked in all directions over the wide stretch of country which surrounded the well but no trace of her could be seen.
When he went home that night he fell ill and on that day week he was dead because he interrupted the fairy woman at the holy well.
- Collector
- Ita geaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Reens, Co. Limerick
