School: Lankill (roll number 16904)
- Location:
- Lankill, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Seán Ó Cibhil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0137F, Page 05_009
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- (continued from previous page)The man then told him to stay there until morning and so he did. He put his horse into a stable. It is not known how long he slept there, but durning the time the fairies had another man made lie the Broaghrim man. This man that the fairies made up went home to the other mans wife and he was sick when he reached home. He went to bed for a long time and he died and they buried him.
When the other man wakened he found his horse and everything was all right. The men there gave him his money tied up in a red handkerchief and they told him not to go home to his wife until he would pay the rent. They said the landlord might refuse to(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Keane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mr Hugh Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballinlough, Co. Mayo
