School: Ballyglass (roll number 14642)
- Location:
- Ballyglass West, Co. Galway
- Teacher: (name not given)
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- Monksfield big house 26.. 1.. 1938
One night three men went up to the big house looking for shoots for their houses.
The Joyces in Ardrahan were living in the big house at this time and there was one of them sick.
The people were very great with the Joyces and when the three men were coming home it was about twelve o’clock and they looked in the window of the big house and they saw a fairy man sitting by the fire and he warming himself and the very minute they looked in he disappeared. The(continues on next page)- Collector
- Bridie Howley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lavally, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Howley
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloghroak, Co. Galway