School: Dunleer (C.) (roll number 1496)
- Location:
- Dunleer, Co. Louth
- Teacher: M. Ní Chathasaigh
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- A true fairy taleIn Ireland not very long ago fairies used to be seen and heard at night. This story I am going to write happened in this locality.There was a man named Geraghty working in Rathesgar castle as a gardener. He had one daughter. The legend says she was very pretty.One Halloween night she went out to frighten a friend of her's who said she never was afraid of anything. She put on old mens clothes and left her house to go down an old lane, but she never returned home that night, and her mother or father did not know what became of her.After a long time she came back and she told her father to go to a certain gap in the fields at twelve o'clock on the following night to bring with him the pot hooks, and that all the fairies.(continues on next page)
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