School: Lenamore, Rathowen (roll number 5115)
- Location:
- Lenamore, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Brian Mac Tomas
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 246
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- (continued from previous page)and farther away and it led them to a graveyard. There they found old Phil in a corner of an old ruined church, and his two eyes out side of his head. But Phil was never the same after that night's fright, and so, he pined away day by day and year after year. His head got queer, and in the end he went away, and could not be seen anywhere for a long time. And they thought that he fell into a river and was lost. One evening his son went along the bank of the river, suddenly a little fairy woman stood before(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Keenan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Killeen, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Peter Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 38
- Address
- Treel, Co. Longford
