School: Clonmacnoise
- Location:
- Clonmacnoise, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: P. Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- (continued from previous page)and did not eat any of the food, as he had heard "Fairies' food must not be eaten." The fairies left him back again and were so angry with him that they swept some thatch off his little house as they were leaving.
- Near the cemetery of Clonmacnois there is a hill called the Pike Hill. Nearly every person who passed by this hill long ago at one or two o' clock at night, saw a ghost. One night at about two o' clock as my grand-father was coming home from Clonlyon, where he had been at a threshing he heard the noise of a horses hooves(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Teresa Mac Manus
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- James Mac Manus
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 68
- Address
- Creevagh, Co. Offaly