School: Baile Lochnáin
- Location:
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Domhnaill
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- (continued from previous page)with an impulse to cut it down. He lingered on for about a year without carrying out his plan.One morning however he was crosser than usual. The white-thorn tree had covered his little garden by then. He went out in a rage and cut it down without delay. It was when he had it down he realized his mistake. Suddenly there came a Fairy Blast and swiped him off in his terror. He was laid down ten miles from his home. After a long tiresome walk home he found his house destroyed.A little fairy woman prophesied that his son would save him from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríghid Ní Dhulchonta
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Riverstown, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Patrick
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 70
- Address
- Carrick, Co. Tipperary
