1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Loughduff (B.)

School: Loughduff (B.)

Location:
Loughduff, Co. Cavan
Teacher:
M. Ó Heidhin
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 054

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0988, Page 054

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Loughduff (B.)
  2. XML Page 054
  3. XML “The Fairs”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Fairs

    Share Share Post
    One night a man was coming home from his ceilide. When he was coming by a house that was on his way home a man handed out a child on a window. The man that was passing took the child and went home with it. When the fairy was handing out the child he thought he was handing it out to another fairy. The next day the man went to the house with the child and when he went there the house was full. The people told the man that the child was dead and when the man handed them the child they would not believe it. Then they
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Deneher
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Loughdawan, Co. Cavan