School: Donnycarney (roll number 10950)
- Location:
- Domhnach Cairnigh Mór, Co. na Mí
- Teacher: P. Ó Cadhain
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“There is a large mound in Laytown called the Moate.”
(continued from previous page)from his back. He told him and that night the other humpy man went to the moate and the fairies were singing the same song. Then the man began to sing the same song. The fairies stopped and the head of them said "who is that interuppting us in our song bring him in here!. The fairies obeyed and when they brought him in they put the other hump on his back, so that, he had a double hump. The moate is said to represent the double hump.- Collector
- John Taylor
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Bridget Taylor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Baile an Bhiataigh, Co. na Mí