I sent this to the list a year ago, but will share it again. Love the story! ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Susan Daily <cullivans@gmail.com> Date: Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 8:09 PM Subject: Re: [BEARA] Samhain - Halloween To: beara@rootsweb.com This is a true faerie story from Leitrim, a woman named Mary shared it with me. I thanked her for it is a lovely story: "My dad went to Sragarne school from around 1911 onwards. I would say the "Stracasse" you have is Sragarne. The school building is still there, used as a garage now. Gorvagh is on the Mohill to Ballinamore road. There was an RIC barracks there long ago. My father's schoolteacher was Master Charlie Flynn and he was known as Master Charlie. The ruin of the house in which he lived was there in the 60s but it's gone now. It was beside the school. My father took us there a few times as children. He would get very sentimental when he'd look at the school, the ruined house etc. "It was said that Sragarn school was built on the track of the fairies. One day at playtime a little man and woman, very small, came walking very fast, walked through the side of the yard, and all the children got very excited and ran after them trying to catch them but they got away. Master Charlie was trying to calm the children down but nobody was listening. They were dressed in coloured clothes. Nobody could ever explain who they were. More recently, a social history book was written about shragarn as part of a school reunion.In 1938 or so children in the Primary schools in Ireland wrote about the local history of their area so as to preserve it. The collection is held in the Folklore Dept. in University College Dublin.One page of the Sragarn collection was photocopied in the reunion book. It was written by a group of girls at the school who had seen a fairy, but only one fairy this time. They wrote their article in such a way that one could see they wanted to be believed. The date of the second sighting was in the 1930s. I could always look for the book again and send you a copy of that page if you're interested. But most people would scoff at what I'm saying."