School: Sallybank
- Location:
- Drumsillagh or Sallybank (Merritt), Co. Clare
- Teacher: Seán Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0585, Page 165
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- A man was coming from town and it ran late on him and he had a lonely road and there was a mountain at both sides of the road, He suddenly saw a ball of fire coming towards him and as it was coming towards it was getting bigger and bigger and then it crossed the road over his head and went in at the other side and bursted, The man went home and he was not able to get up next day, His brother went to tell his friends and at twelve o clock that night he was coming along the mountain path, He saw a man coming toward him. Both of them met and he said, "there it is pick it up" and he would not, He hit him and disappeared and in a couple of days after the sick man dies, It was a fairy friend that was giving him a cure
I got this story from my father
- Informant
- Mr James Nihill
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Oatfield, Co. Clare
