School: Cros Riabhach
- Location:
- Crossreagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: T. Ó Siordáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1003, Page 433
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- One moonlight night, a man from Crossbane was going home from his Ceilidhe and he heard people cheering in the fort. Then a football hopped before him on the road.
He was going to lift it but a wee man gave him a hand and foot and tumbled him on his back.
Then he heard fairies laughing and jeering,
He went home and his wife says, he fainted when he saw the light. He always went home early after that.
- Collector
- Phelim Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornaglare or Palmira, Co. Cavan
