School: Fahan (roll number 14479)
- Location:
- Fathain, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Cáitlín L. Nig Uidhir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1109, Page 302
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- There is a fairy fort in Burt. There is a hole in it. A fiddler went in to it fiddling, and he never came out again. There are not walls or fences around it.
Frank Casey of Fahan went to cut a fairy tree down one day and the fairies took all the hair off his head.
Once a woman carrying her son went out for her cows in Conglash hill (Buncranna). She left her son down and went to get the cows.When she came back her son was gone. The fairies took him for three days.On the third she found him again at the back of a rock.
There is a fairy tree in the Back planting in Glengollan. A man(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hamilton Ferguson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fathain, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Informant
- Mrs Ferguson
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Castletown, Co. Dhún na nGall
