School: Gowran (C.)
- Location:
- Gowran, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chuinn
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- Forts are very common around Gowran & fairies are supposed to have lived in them. One night a drunken man was passing one & heard beautiful music, in he went; & he could not believe his eyes when he saw a merry little crowd kicking football. When an hour was they all went into a little room in a tunnel. There was all sorts of refreshments laid out on a table & the Queen sat at one end & the King in the other. When they had finished they set out to dance & believe me the man never felt the night going but he was never seen again.
- Collector
- Biddy Cass
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodquarter, Co. Kilkenny
- Informant
- James Kinsella
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 69
- Address
- Woodquarter, Co. Kilkenny