School: Clonmellon (B.) (roll number 9500)
- Location:
- Clonmellon, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Ó Droighneáin
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- XML “A Fairy Story”
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- Collector
- Liam Meehan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mrs Bennett
- Relation
- Relative (other than parent or grandparent)
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilrush Lower, Co. Westmeath
- About a hundred years ago a woman went out to milk her cows in a field near Ballinlough cross-roads. While she was milking them this evening she saw something coming towards her. It was like a child. She was wearing a green dress and red cap. The nearer she came the older her face seemed to get. When she came close she saw it wasn't a child but a fairy that was in it. Then the fairy laughed, threw herself on the ground and disappeared. The people said afterwards that if she had spoken to the fairy she would have got a pot of gold
- There was a priest named Father Lynch. He was home on holidays at Moynalty and went out for a walk through the fields one day. A lot of little children sprang up before him with sticks in their hands. The priest clapped his hands and said "The first to the forth (?)" and they disappeared.