School: Cill Bheagnait (roll number 1327)
- Location:
- Kilbegnet, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Briain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0262, Page 008
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Fairy Forts (continued)
“Once upon a time there was a man living in Rosmoylan named Michal Ward.”
(continued from previous page)which was very slow. He went out one morning very early to make a start, and as he passed by the forth he said, "if there is any, help there now it was never more wanting." He started to reap a set of wheat and as he booked behind him he saw fifteen men with a hook each coming out of the forth. Each man took a set and started to reap. Out came ten women and started to bind. Next came two men and started to stook. At about nine o'clock in the morning the work was finished. The crowd dissappered in the forth and the man went in to his breakfast. His wife got a great surprise wen he told her the field of wheat(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Nardhaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Eamon Ó Nárdhaigh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Carrowkeel, Co. Roscommon