School: Díseart, Droichead Átha (roll number 1434)

Location:: Dysart, Co. Louth
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told the fairy he would cut his head off but still the fairy would not tell the man his name. The man took the fairy down the field and let him go. Then the man went home and in about a fortnight after he died.
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A long time ago a man was going to Dysart Churchyard to dig up a dead body for the Doctors. Coming near the Churchyard he heard a step behind him, and a man came up to him and they were talking there for a while, and he told the man that he was going to steal a sheep a few fields away and so he went to get the sheep and the other man went into the Churchyard to get the body.

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