School: Rathmeage, Hackettstown
- Location:
- Ráth Mheidhg, Co. Chill Mhantáin
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Tuathail
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“A man was going to the fair.”
A man was going to the fair. He was going by the rath and the sheep got away. They went to the rath. The man went after them and when he went to it he saw a girl and she asked him what he wanted for the sheep. The man told her what he wanted. He went to the fair and when he was there for a while he went to the "standin." (stall) The girl was at it with a skiver in her hands. She was taking cakes of the standing. She was a fairy + she asked him what eye he was looking at her with. Then she ran the skiver into his eye.(no title)
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