School: Moyne (B.) (roll number 13989)
- Location:
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Francis Doyle
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0766, Page 351
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- (continued from previous page)laughed and said "How are you Mick" - there were the little fairy folk dancing around and making merry. Then they began to get dinner and all my old comrades began to eat and drink. The little folk ran towards me with plates of tempting stuff. I was going to put my finger on a dish when up stepped Jimmie McWade and said "Don't taste bit bite or sup Mick unless you wish to stay here. I took his advise. After dinner those people I knew in the fairies talked to me again. They made inquiries about their friends and one of them says "That was a great game of cards was in your house the other night Mick" There was a game in our house sure enough but how do you know it, I says Didn't you play(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Francis Doyle
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moyne, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Michael Hurson
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Gaigue, Co. Longford
