School: Killeenkere
- Location:
- Killinkere, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: A. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1005, Page 002
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“In the townland of Kilmore in the house where the O Reillys once lived...”
(continued from previous page)have Holy Water with him and shake it over the child in The name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost and catch the child at once before the fairy woman could touch it.
Micheál Mór did as he was directed in the dream and soon after midnight he saw two small women standing at the window and one disappeared through it, he shook the Holy Water on himself and went down and stood at the window also, and the child was pushed out on the window at once. He shook the Holy Water on it and caught hold of it just before the fairy woman's hands touched it. He rescued the child but the fairies had their revenge. Micheál had one of the best race-horses on the whole country and one(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernard Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Patrick Fitzsimons
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Cavan