School: Clochar na Trócaire, Dún Drongáin (roll number 7232)
- Location:
- Drangan, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Siúracha na Trócaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0557, Page 098
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“In Tipperary is a hill shaped very much like a peaked night-cap.”
(continued from previous page)nights. After holding a meeting they appointed their Queen to frighten away the herdsman and his cows. Night after night while the moon danced on the hill the fairy Queen would suddenly bob up before the lovely herdsman, now in one frightful shape and now in another. Sometimes she would take the shape of a great beast with a lion's head and a fishes tail, then as quick as a flash she would change herself into some horrible creature with a horse's body and eagle's wings. Then the fairy Queen would go away as soon as the sun began to rise.
Never a night passed but the same thing happened. The cattle half mad kept tumbling into pits and falling into rivers and no herdsman would tend them at night no matter how much money the owner offered.
One day the owner of the cattle told his troubles to Larry Hoolahan a man who feared(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Josephine White
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathkenny, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Peggy Hanly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycullin, Co. Tipperary