School: Síolach (roll number 12266)
- Location:
- Sheelagh, Co. Louth
- Teacher: S. Ó Gnímh
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“Once upon a time when a tramp tailor went into a house the child was crying and the mother said it was always crying like that.”
Once upon a time when a tramp tailor went into a house the child was crying and the mother said it was always crying like that. The old tramp tailor told the mother to get some very old thing and give it to the child. When the mother got an old spoon she gave it to the child and when he saw it he laughed heartly and said that his old fairy mother fed him with it two hundred years before and when he had said this the mother burnt him behind the fire and then her own child came back and was always quiet from that day on.
- Informant
- Mrs Mary Mc Ardle
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Sheelagh, Co. Louth