School: Eaglais
- Location:
- Boirinn, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: S. Ó Mongaigh
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- One night a boy was coming home from cardplaying He met a coffin with three fairies under it. They asked him why he was out late. The boy said that he was cardplaying. "We are short of a man and go under this coffin" they said. The boy went under the coffin and they kept going all night. They came to a stream and it was then nearly day-light. They left down the coffin beside the stream. They told the boy to go home.
- Collector
- Máire Ní Mháille
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Boirinn, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Informant
- Celia Malley
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50