School: Cill Iubhair (roll number 10095)
- Location:
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Pádhraic Ó Ceithearnaigh
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- There is a fort in Thomas Glynn's land. It is called the "Liosín" It is in the townland of Killure Castle. There is a stone wall surrounding this fort.
Some years ago a man named Thomas Hibbet went to take away the stones round the fort and the horse saw something which frightened him and he ran away and broke his leg. It is said that it was the Danes that built it.
When people would be passing they often heard the fairies making bargains and dancing and singing.
One night a man named Pat Kelly was going home from a visiting house he heard a noise. When he came near the fort there were men buying and selling at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Burns
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Michael Burns
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killure Beg, Co. Galway
