School: Réidh Ghlas (roll number 14853)

Location:
Knockardtry, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Pártholán Ó Dálaigh
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    and he was sick in bed. His name was Dan Connor. When the people of the house went to the bed he was not there. There were other men torching and they heard the noise in the bushes and they looked into the bushes they knew the man they asked him who brought him there he said "the good people" They carried him home and when he was at home he said one crowd did not want to die and the other crowd wanted him to die, and he died in his own bed and the fairies carried him again the next day He was a man in the fairies.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Katty Greaney
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Denis Healy
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70