School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- An Baile Nua (Shea), Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- (continued from previous page)there and fairies visit it now and then.
My uncle was coming home from work and he heard a noise like the beat of a hammer.
He went down into the rath for curiosity to see what it was, and there he saw a small man with a tall hat and turned-up toes.
He had a hammer in one hand and a last with a shoe on it in the other hand.
When the little man saw my uncle (guessed) he dissappeared, and then my(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Annracán
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ceanannas, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mary Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Ceanannas, Co. Chill Chainnigh
