School: Kilgobnet
- Location:
- Kilgobnet, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinneide; Ellen Foley
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0471, Page 391
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- (continued from previous page)flags. Some people believe that they were made by the danes, others say that it was the Irish that built them to hide from the Danes.
It si said that anyone that plought a fort dies sortly after.
A man lived near Ballyledder fort and he owned a very good horse and foal. One night the foal came into the yard neighing. They knew that something must have happened the horse.
They got up and searched every where and after a long time there found her near the fort covered with sweat and mud. It is said that the faries had her out. The horse died shortly afterwards and it is said that the faries that killed her.
- Collector
- Mary Anne Coffey
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Timothy Coffey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
