School: Ceathrú Gabhann (C.) (roll number 14229)
- Location:
- Ceathrú an Ghabhann, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Caitlín Bean Uí Shioradáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0121, Page 122
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- (continued from previous page)to gallop. He galloped up and down the field at an awful speed, and the rest of them were going as quickly. They were there until about three o'clock next morning.
Then they went into the house. There was a big dark room first. Then they went down a lot of steps till they came to a palace. There was a table out in the middle of the floor and there were fairies sitting around it eating the most delicous food. They invited the woman to partake of the food. When she was going to sit down to take some, a woman whispered behind her not to take any of it or she would turn into a fairy. The woman told her that she herself ate some of it and that she turned into a fairy and that she had to stay(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Nellie O Hora
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Both Chomhla, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- N. Gordan
- Relation
- Unknown
- Gender
- Unknown
