School: Walterstown (roll number 10356)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Proinseas, Bean Uí Cheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0686, Page 145
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- (continued from previous page)the youngest, the others told him to save the little gossoon. The minute Paddy crossed the Nanny, the little fairy-man disappeared. About 10 years before that he was seen by (James Kelly's) auntie. She was only a girl at the time. He was picking a posy, she thought. She got afraid of him because she had heard of him and she went away.
(James Kelly 70) About 50 years ago (now 1938) the fairy-man was seen by old Pat Mackeen and Long Jack Byrd's father at a gap (near the hunting bridge) on Slanduff Hills. He was sitting there. The two men looked at him, and suddenly they heard a big noise behind them. They looked back to the fairy-man again he was gone. The evening of Mikey Keagan's funeral to the chapel (the last Sunday in August 1937) say about 8 o'clock the funeral was. Four or five people saw this fairy man again with a shovel on his shoulder going up the hill from 'Dalys Well' and he was watched by them. He was a small little fellow, scrambling up the hill and the people thought he was making his way to Mountown Churchyard.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- M. B. O' Kelly
- Address
- Monktown, Co. Meath
- Informant
- James Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Monktown, Co. Meath
