School: Corratober
- Location:
- Corratober, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ss. Mac Gabhann
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- In the townland of Enaughan in the middle of a field over-looking "Fanny's Lake stands a large elder tree. It is known for the past forty years that on dark winter nights from ten oclock onward a light is continually playing around it. Many a person has got a fright going past the place at night. About fifty years ago the owner decided to cut the tree as it was in his way ploughing the field. He sent a man named Paddy Reilly with hatchet and cross-cut and to do the work Paddy commenced to cut with the hatchet. He gave about ten strokes when a voice came from under-neath the tree and ordered him, "Don't cut our shelter". Paddy ran but the marks of the hatchet can be seen in the tree up to the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Mulligan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Enaghan, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Patrick Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Enaghan, Co. Longford
