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School: Johnstown (B.) (roll number 2918)

Location:
Johnstown, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Tomás Ó Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0869, Page 034

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    There a great many raths in this district. Here are some of them. Cleers rath in Ballyspellan, Sanforts rath in Warronstown, Dowlings rath in Grange. Cleers rath is a very large one, surrounded by trees and bushes. It is said that in this rath there are fairies seen. One night there was a man coming home late and he was crossing the rath.
    He was surrounded by fairies. So he was kept in the rath until morning. During the fairies were singing and dancing. When morning came all the fairies disappeared and let the man home. He told all the people about it. Ever since no one went near the rath.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Hickey
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Grangefertagh, Co. Kilkenny