School: Ballinard (B.), Cnoc Luinge

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1. Shaun O'Hea and the White-Robed Fairy (continued)

   

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   says Shaun.”your nervous. Wasn’t you in the warmest corner under the rafters when the “dhrame” was troubling?””The lady will be impatient” says he, so bidding his beloved Judy a cordial good evening and placing the pipes under his arm he soon reached the spot where the lady awaited him in a superb carriage drawn by pair of magnificent grays. On her own invitation Shaun bashfully seated himself beside the attractive white lady and the carriage rolled off through winding avenues enclosed by choicest fruit trees and evergreens and sweet smelling roses until they arrived opposite a spacious mansion into the ball room, where a brilliant company of ladies and gentlemen in quaint habiliments eagerly awaiting his arrival. After partaking of some necessary liquid refreshments which to use Shaun’s own expressive phraseology would knock a song out of a born dummy, or a “moneen jig” out of a stone statue, and having reminded the hostess as was customary with him on such occasions to have a “roost” of “clane” whiskey for him ere his departure in the morning. Shaun gave his elbow to the bagpipes until the small hours of the morning when through an inherent spirit of mischief Shaun played up the wonderful dancing frantically until the hostess exhibited before the delighted gaze of Shaun the “clane croost” of whiskey of which he had previously reminded her, when he must immediately ceased and the exhausted company immediately retired. During Shaun;s performance of the tune of mirth he saw to his astonishment that shoals of freshwater fish gazed in admiration through the

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   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Languages

   Irish

   English

   Informant

   Owen Bresnan

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Loughgur, Co. Limerick