FAIRY LEGENDS AND TRADITIONS OF THE SOUTH OF IRELAND

THOMAS CROFTON CROKER

This text taken from the new and complete Seventh Edition by T. Wright, June, 1906, with illustrations by Maclise and Green.

CONTENTS

Dedication

The Editor's Preface

Publishers' Preface to the New Edition

The Legend of Knocksheogowna

The Legend of Knockfierna

The Legend of Knockgrafton

The Priest's Supper

The Young Piper

The Brewery of Egg-shells

The Changeling

Capture of Bridget Purcell

Legend of Bottle-hill

Fairies or no Fairies

The Haunted Cellar

Seeing is Believing

Master and Man

The Turf Cutters

The Field of Boliauns

The Little Shoe

The Spirit Horse

Daniel O'Rourke

The Crookened Back

Fior Usga

The Enchanted Lake

The Legend of O'Donoghue

The Lady of Gollerus

Flory Cantillon's Funeral

The Soul Cages

The Lord of Dunkerron

The Wonderful Tune

The Good Woman

Hanlon's Mill

The Headless Horseman

Diarmid Bawn, The Piper

Ned Sheehy's Excuse

Dreaming Tim Jarvis

Scath-a-Legaune

The Hidden Treasure

The Rock of the Candle

Barry of Cairn Thierna

The Giant's Stairs