School: Cavangarden (roll number 16511)
- Location:
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Rebecca C. R. Mitchell
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- (continued from previous page)fort is. Her father, Mr. Willie Clarke, was went down through this hole in the cave; he threw out some large stones so that he could get through. When he was coming out he could hear music in the cave.Fairy people were supposed to live in this cave. There is supposed to be a fort in this cave at night. Mr. Moore, the father of Bennie Moore, […] pupil of Cavangarden School – Lurgan, Cavangarden, saw fairies dancing round this large stone.[Frank Hammond, Lougheske, Co. Donegal, cut a fairy bush for a roost for hens and next morning the hens were all dead.]
- Collector
- Jeanie Clarke
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal
- Informant
- Mr Willie Clarke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cavangarden, Co. Donegal