School: Machaire
- Location:
- Magherintemple, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Mary Ó Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1023, Page 133
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- Hallow Eve.
An old legend connected with this feast is told in the district, by the old people Long a old and his wife sat discoursing and gossiping by the fireside. Suddenly they heard a great noise and immediately a great uproar of laughing was heard (on the str) outside
The old man rose and went outside, And what did he see? but a ring of fairies dancing round him. They invited him into their midst and by the power of their magic he went.
Suddenly the laughing and dancing ceased and the fairies and the old man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O' Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Longfield, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mary Fay
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Longfield, Co. Cavan
