School: Tara Hill (roll number 13689)
- Location:
- Kilcavan, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Pádraig Mac Fhlannchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0888, Page 101
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- Women used put needles in baby's clothes or cap to keep the fairies from taking them.They took brides too sometimes. On one occasion a man lost his bride in this manner and he went to the local fairyman to help him to get her back. The fairyman told him to go to a certain gap through which all the fairies would pass at the dead hour of the night. He would see his bride amongst the last of them. He was to provide himself with a knife and as she passed by on horseback he was to cut the saddle girth with one slash. If he failed to cut it with one effort something dreadful would befall himself. The man did as he was advised, succeeded, and won back his bride. From
Miss Loughnan Tara Hill - Born 1845
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