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1. Fairy Stories - The Thorn from a Fairy Fort

   

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   One day when a man was cutting his hedge a little fairy man came up to him and told him not to cut it because it was joined to a fairy fort. The man said he would cut it because it was he owned it. As he was cutting it a thorn flew from the hedge and stuck in his eye and after a short time it got blind and from the badness of that eye his two eyes got stone blind.

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   Topics

   1. activities
      1. economic activities
         1. agriculture (~2,659)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Nora Keogh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   12

   Address

   Saint Patrick's Terrace, Co. Tipperary

   Informant

   Mrs Keogh

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   32

   Address

   Saint Patrick's Terrace, Co. Tipperary

2. Fairy Stories - The Family Who Could Not Churn

   

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   Once there was a family and they could never churn their butter. So one day a little fairy woman came in and they told her they could not churn their butter. The little woman told them if they placed a little can of milk outside the cowhouse door after milking that their churning would be alright.

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