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School: Dysert (roll number 8640)

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Dysart, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
C. Nic Eochagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0737, Page 438

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    leather.
    In the middle of the day he said to his wife. "We will stay up to-night and see who is doing this wonderful work. Maybe it is some good little fairy that came from the fort to do this wonderful work." They stayed up. They hid behind a curtain.
    In the middle of the night two little fairies came in. They began making the shoes. They had not time to look at one another. When morning was coming they went off.
    When they were gone his wife said, "I will make each of them a little shirt and a coat" She made them and she left them on the counter for them. The next night the fairies came in again. When they saw the clothes they gladly put them on and danced merrily out and went back to the fort and never came back again.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Lily Kelly
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Dysart, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    Joseph Kelly
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    c. 65
    Address
    Dysart, Co. Westmeath