School: Hackettstown (St Joseph's)
- Location:
- Baile Haicéid, Co. Cheatharlach
- Teacher: M. Ní Raghallaigh
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- (continued from previous page)advice and change to the other end" and then she left. The man worked away and completed the room. One evening the old woman appeared again and said "See you have your room completed". "Yes" answered the woman we expect to be sleeping in it any of these nights". "I am sorry to say" said the old woman "you'll never sleep a night in it" and at that she left. Sometime during the night they heard a terrible racket and next morning the room was levelled to the ground so the people said it was built on the path the fairies used to go. The old woman never was seen by anyone except the old woman of the House. The above happened outside of Hacketstown.
- Collector
- Annie Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Peter Byrne
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Baile Haicéid, Co. Cheatharlach