School: Ballystrang (roll number 15364)
- Location:
- Ballystrang, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó Cuinn
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- Down in a townland called Bruidheann there is a place in which there are fairies. The people near the place, sometimes see a hearse and a funeral after it and the whole of them fairies and they bear a corpse under a big flag there. Some of the people saw the fairy stables. There are a lot of bushes growing around this place and the people say that if any person would break a bit off the bushes some thing would happen to themselves or their cattle. The people say that one night they heard a terrible bit of crying and they never saw a fairy about the place after(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peter Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Chearc, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Patrick Bonner
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- An Chearc, Co. Dhún na nGall