School: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (roll number 13313)

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   “Not far from where I live there is a fort or fairy-swing...”

   

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   was passing by about twelve oclock at night. He heard a loud laugh. He went home to bed and the next morning all his hair was gone you can now see how unlucky it is to touch fairies.

   

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2. A Soldier's Bush

   

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   Once upon a time there was a soldier's bush in Goshen and no matter how often a person cut it down it would grown up again. On one occasion a man cut it down and one night he was in bed the fairies came to the house and they brought him out and turned him into a key. The reason its called a soldiers bush is because long ago there were soldiers killed and buried there. On another occasion a man cut it down because he did not want it in his field. The next morning when he got up all his horses were dead were the soldiers bush

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   Language

   English

   Informant

   Master John Phillips

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Corboy, Co. Longford