School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Ráth Mheidhg, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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“One fair morning a man went out to catch his horse and he could not get it.”
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- John Wheatly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Sliabh an Chróigh, Co. Chill Mhantáin
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“One time a man was only after been married and the night of the wedding...”
One time a man was only after been married and the night of the wedding she was took by the fairies + she met him one day and told him to come to a certain gap in a certain place and she would be on a grey horse and if he could grab for her going out in the gap he would have her and he asked some of the neighbours to go with him to company him and they went + they seen the crowd comming he got afraid and did not grab her + he did not get her and the neighbours were going to murder him for not grabing for her and he never heard tell of her after.