School: Collon (B.) (roll number 14578)
- Location:
- Collon, Co. Louth
- Teacher: B. Mac Searraigh
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- (continued from previous page)a few people talking about drinking the buter-milk. She got afraid and went back to bed. At six-o-clock next morning she got up to light the fire, after the breakfast, she went over to the jurn to see if the milk was gone, but it not. She told her husband about the fairies and he said that the house must be on a fairies pass. It was the middle of the day when there came a knock at the door, and a beautiful lady walked in and said, would you give me a basin of meal please, and I will pay for it. My greatgrandmother did, and she said you need not pay for it. Well said the woman take two foot off the gable-end of the house, and the fairies will(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Donegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Collon, Co. Louth
