School: Bullán (roll number 13432)
- Location:
- An Ballán, Co. na Gaillimhe
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Muimhneacháin
![The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0055](https://doras.gaois.ie/cbes/CBES_0059%2FCBES_0059_0055.jpg?width=1600&quality=85)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0059, Page 0055
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Bullán
- XML Page 0055
- XML “Taken by the Fairies”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Taken by the FairiesTraditional story told by John Scully of Bullaun, Co. Galway age 73.People were taken away by the "Good People" or the fairies long ago. Sure I can tell you a story about that. Wasn't my father at the funeral when it happened. I suppose ye all know Larchill up the road there.Well long ago a family was living there by the name of Murphy and they had one little girl about ten years of age. One day she was out picking "noneens". A woman came over to her and asked her for the flowers. Sure
- Informant
- John Scully
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Address
- An Ballán, Co. na Gaillimhe