A Fairy Tale
6th May 1938
In the village of Ara Co Mayo there was a man called James Reddington. He was returning home from visiting one night and he met the fairies and they all saying, "A horse for me". The man said, "And a horse for me". The fairies were short of a horse and they gave him a bullock, but they told him not to speak.
The fairies and the man set off in full gallop and never stopped till they came to the river Moy near Foxford and the horses and the bullock jumped the river. The man said "Speak or speak not, that was a good jump for a bullockeen. The moment he spoke the fairies and the bullock disappeared and he found himself riding on a boohalaun and he had to walk home.
“INFORMANT: Martin Ansbro, Age 74, Prison, Balla Co. Mayo”