School: Baile an Doirín (C) (roll number 7552)
- Location:
- Ballinderreen, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Treasa Bean Uí Bheirn
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Stories Continued (continued)
“There was an old woman who lived in Aran long ago.”
(continued from previous page)do not think of it you will have to come with me, and the fairy went. As soon as the fairy went pass the door stop, the Aran woman forgot her name and she told her husband. He was over in the garden next day and he heard the fairy spinning and singing and minding a child and her song was Little my mistress thinks of my name and my name is "Thristle go drill". When he came home in the evening he said to his wife it is thristle go drill o seadh seadh e. She kept saying it until the fairywoman came into her- Collector
- Rose Niland
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Martin Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 56
- Address
- Tyrone, Co. Galway