School: Coill Bheithne, Baile Mhistéala (roll number 11286)
- Location:
- Coill Bheithne, Co. Luimnigh
- Teacher: Micheál Ó Cathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0513, Page 510
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- (continued from previous page)keyhole and up on the beams. The people of the house were getting a grand supper ready in the middle of the kitchen. The fairies wanted to take the sick girl away with them, and they told the man if she sneezed three times without anyone speaking they would carry her away.
At that moment she began to sneeze, all the fairies put their fists into the man's mouth. then she sneezed again and they did likewise. The third time she sneezed the man said "God bless us" and with that they threw him down on the table and he broke all the cups. The girls father and mother were very thankful when they heard he had saved the little girl. When he went out for his horse all he could see was the old plough.
- Collector
- Bríd English
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Coill Bheithne, Co. Luimnigh
- Informant
- John O Brien
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 41
- Address
- Coill Bheithne, Co. Luimnigh
