Volume: CBÉ 0221
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0221, Page 0022
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“The dead coach used to travel from Ballyhogue...”
(continued from previous page)There was a girl named Bid Murphy worked at a farmer's place named Sinnotts in Ballyhogue in the Co. Wexford. One evening she went out to milk the cows and there was a hill or a mound in the middle of the field and she saw a whole lot of little fellows dancing on the hill. She knew at once that there were the fairies for she had often heard of them. There were eight of them dancing and two or three little fellows playing the grandest music that Bid Murphy ever heard in all her life.
The music got the better of her and she went right up to the mound where the fairies were sitting and then she saw the king and queen sitting side by side on two mushrooms and they looking on at the dancing.(continues on next page)