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Dónall Ó Laoidhléis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0632, Page 73

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    road again, and an old woman appeared to him, and told him that he would find his father in a certain place and when he would find that place he would sing a little song, and his father would come out to him.The boy went searching for his father, when he found him the father told that him that he was with the fairies all the time, and that they put him to jail for cutting the fir tree. (The) Then the father went home, and planted another fir tree for the fairies.
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Roche
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Querrin, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Michael Roche
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Querrin, Co. Clare