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   3. There was a man from Chapelfinnerty who was once brought away with the fairies when he was with the fairies a while he did something out of the way to them and they threw him out when the man came back he would not tell anyone anything about the fairies. He only said he was in a fort near balla. There was a man named Tom Barrett in the townland of Liscune living near a fort. One night when the fairies were taking him out thro' the window of his house a man who was going to a fair with his cow saw them and he took the child from the fairies Barrett lived to be an old man but the fairies gave him crooked eyes.

   4. There in a fort in the townland of the Hillswood. One night about twenty years ago, when my father was coming home from the one o'clock train in woodlawn, he heard fairies playing hurling. It was a grand starry night when he was coming he heard great noise like laughter and he said when a goal would be scored there would be great fun and laughter. There is another old, fort in the townland of Ballyglass kept a few years ago, there was a cave a few miles long leading past it, but there were so many sheep lost that it had to be stopped

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridie Sweeney

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Fohanagh, Co. Galway

   Collector

   John Kenny

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Callow, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Joseph Connolly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Barnavihall, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Martin Kenny

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Callow, Co. Galway

   Collector

   Stephen Cahill

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Lisnascreena, Co. Galway