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Drumnatread, Co. Cavan
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S. Stonndúin
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    put them in the stable and when he went to the stable again he found five fairy men at the manger.
    There was a sea-calf supposed to live in Lough-a-Cannor and one evening three men were out on the lake fishing and they struck the calf and killed it. This calf was supposed to be the size of a calf about a month old.
    About five years ago there was a calf at my home which could not walk and whenever it was touched it would go "head-over-heels" for the length of a field.
    Long ago there was a calf at Owen Collins's in Bindoo which had two heads and one was a pig's head and the other was a calf's.
    Any sea-animals in this district only appeared at night
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Ellen Murtagh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Bindoo, Co. Cavan
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Murtagh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Bindoo, Co. Cavan