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1. Fairies (continued)

   

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   life. There is a field in Bannow called Chapel field and there is a fairy rath in it and the people say that the fairies live there many years ago. The luaracawns were often seen creeping around it on the grass smoking their little pipes. There is another rath in Ballygar and it was in the middle of a big field. The field used be ploughed all around it but no one would think of ploughing the rath. There was one man however would think of ploughing it. His father told him not to have anything to do with it, but he wouldn't listen to him. He yoked the horses and he drove them into the field and right around the rath. When he went around it once he got an awful pain in his head and he was never the better of it.

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   History Edit

   Date

   17 April 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

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