School: Lios Béalad, Dún Mánmhaí (roll number 11715)

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   who had a liss in his land. He was very covetous and he set to work one morning to dig up the liss. When he was nearly finished his work a man stuck his head up through the ground and said :- "Mike Madden, Mike Madden, you're looking so badden, three humps on Mike Madden." From that day forward the man who's name was Mike Madden had three humps on his back.

   

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2. Fairy Forts

   

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   There are four Lisses situated in the townland of Incfafune, two of them quite close to each other. The other two are a few fields apart but all in a circle. They have never been exported. One of them looks as if it has fallen in as it is sunk and an earthen circle around it. Another of them has a hole in the side where rabbits live. If a stone is thrown in you can hear it sound as if it travelled a passage a long way. Nobody ever cultivated them as it was considered some ill luck would befall the person responsible for interfering with it.

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Eileen Crowley

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Mrs Crowley

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Inchafune, Co. Cork