Volume: CBÉ 0190
- Date
- 1936
- Collector
- Locations
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The Main Manuscript Collection, Volume 0190, Page 101
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- There is a great belief in fairies in the Co Wexford. They are supposed to live in the forts or raths or "raws" as the people say.In Bannow the people say that there two different kinds of fairies, fairies and lucharachans. The fairies sit to themselves in the raths and the lucharachans to themselves smoking little pipes. The fairies don't smoke at all.A crowd of fairies came to a man's house down in Bannow riding on a bullock. They knocked at the door and asked for a nights lodgings. The man of the house let them in allright. There was a big pot of potatoes and cabbage and meat on the kitchen(continues on next page)