Volume: CBÉ 0406 (Part 2)

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1. Halloran's Rock

   

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   There's a cook in the farm house
   near Halloran's Rock and he never stops crowing;
   And any cook they get is always at it.
   There is something bad in the water there ; and
   they say the cook is always warning. Long ago
   a great monster was in it and he used often
   be seen coming out on the inch grazinf.
   Wan time a soldier dived off the rock in
   the water and he never came up nor the
   body ever recovered.

   

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   Item type

   Lore

   Language

   Béarla

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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   • Miss Brigid Clancy

2. Fairies

   

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   If you dont interfere or meddle with the
   fairies they often do a good turn. They would
   guide one going home at night and protect
   them from harm
   There is a rath at Tobar a' Dúin and long
   ago when we were children going to school
   our mother and (every other mother) used to shake
   rain on us the way the fairies couldn't
   harm us
   When they were building the pump at Tobar
   a' dúin the whole thing used be (?)
   down every morning. They watched it and twas

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