School: Empor (roll number 941)
- Location:
- Emper, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: P. Gallagher
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- There was a man long ago who was out late at night one night when he was coming home from rambling he met a lot of fairies.
One of them got down from his horse and told the man to get up on the horse or he would kill him.
The man got up on the horse and they brought him away. Three nights after one of the fairies went to the mans house and told his wife that if she went to a certain gap the next night and bring a key and a bottle of holy water with her.
He told her that if she was able to hit the man three times(continues on next page)- Informant
- Peter Mc Cormack
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Emper, Co. Westmeath