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School: Killoughternane, Borris

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Killoughternane, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
T. Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0905, Page 132

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    him two bottles of water, and told him to mind them coming across Scolloghue bridge. The man said he would. When he came to the bridge, he was holding in his hand the bottles. A fairy man came out of the bridge, and threw him off the horse, and broke the bottles. The man went back to the fairy man and told him what happened. Then the fairy came home with him, and looked at the boy's knee.
    He seemed to pull some thing like a knitting needle from the knee.
    He told them to sow a birch tree over the spot where the boy cut the hurdle and if he didn't the boy would get bad again. He sowed the tree, and the boy got alright.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maurice Donohue
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Seskin, Co. Carlow
    Informant
    Thomas Doran
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Seskin, Co. Carlow