School: Nuadhchongbháil (Nohoval) (roll number 10326)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Siobhán, Bean Uí Riada
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0444, Page 239
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- (continued from previous page)throw it down in the stream that it was coming down to themselves and drowning them.
This James Flynn put down his bonhams in a house in which he keeps pigs in the fort. One of the bonhams was taken and a fairy bonham left there instead. One day they were all looking at this strange bonham and he went down through the ground. There is a cave in the fort and steps going down to it.
James Flynn knew a man from Scartaglen and his name was Ned Healy. He ploughed up a fort in Scartaglen and he got a bad fever and died.
John Laide sat cabbage in his fort and it never grew to him.
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- Informant
- Mrs Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 83
- Occupation
- Farmer's wife
- Address
- Ballymacpierce, Co. Kerry
