School: Listowel (B.) (roll number 1797)

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1. Stories of the Fairies

   

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   8. There was a fellah there long 'go and he used be taken out of his bed every night when he was asleep and he'd be made play a game of hurling. He went to America because he thought the dead people couldn't cross the water after him. He used be carried out in America and made play hurling again. He died while he was a young man.

   

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2. Stories of the Fairies

   

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   9. My grand uncle Dick Enright saw a light in the bog in Dromerin. He was drowned after in the same place.

   

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3. Stories of the Fairies

   

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   10. There was a woman there long 'go and every night when she was going to bed she used put a tub on the floor and a spancel over the rafters. The spancel used spout down milk to the tub during the night.

   

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4. Stories of the Fairies

   

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   11. One night a boy and a girl were coming home from a dance and they met a woman, and they asked her if she would go down as far as the black steps with them and she said she would. When they were apass the black steps they said they were safe and the woman said she would take the short cut across the field. When she went into the field she saw a huge circle. It went around very fast until it became about the size of a reel of thread. Then it went slowly along the field and the woman walked after it and when it came to the end of the field it disappeared. Then the woman went out the gate of the field and when she went into a house she told her story to the man of the house and he said it must have been the devil.

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   1. gníomhairí (~1)
      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   G. Kelly

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   G. Murphy

   Gender

   Unknown

   Address

   Dubháth, Co. Chiarraí

5. Stories of the Fairies

   

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   12. A man by the name of Sheehy who was a very holy man died. At the wake it was noticed that a smile stole over his face.

   

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