School: Bloomhill
- Location:
- Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Nic Annraoi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0812, Page 490
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- (continued from previous page)night, daylight in the opposite direction from which they started. One man had to cross a field one night and he kept travelling around the field all night and couldn't get out. Sometimes too if a person sleeps out of doors the fairies can bring them. You wake up and find yourself in a different place.
As a general rule the fairies don't interfere with anyone who leaves them alone but if a man interferes with an old fort or cuts a thorn bush or digs anything out of a lios they fairies haunt him afterwards.
The mermaid.
Stories are told around here about a being who is seen in the Shannon on bright moonlight nights. She is half a girl and half a fish. She has beautiful long hair. When she is seen it is a sign that something strange is about to happen. She only appears once in every(continues on next page)
