School: Naomh Muire (B.), Droichead Átha (roll number 15125)
- Location:
- Drogheda, Co. Louth
- Teacher: A. Mac Uidhlinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0681, Page 028
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- Once upon a time there was a man with a hump and he had a friend who also had a hump.
One day the man was employed working in a field cutting thistles. He went up on a little hill and he heard the fairies saying, May, June, July. He began to say it also.
The fairies heard him and they brought him and they took the hump off him. Next day when his friend, who had also a hump, saw him he asked him how did he get his hump off.
He told him to go(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Eneaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Congress Avenue, Co. Louth
