School: Béal Átha an Dá Chab (2) (roll number 13976)
- Location:
- Ballydehob, Co. Cork
- Teacher: J.W. Pollard
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0291, Page 429
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- (continued from previous page)and from thence forth he was never troubled. Stone pipes are often found near a fort, which are supposed to have been left behind by the fairy people, who are supposed to have lived there in olden times.
No crops are sown in these forts, but the owners burn bushes in the ditches, and they also let the cows feed in them. One evening two men went into a fort in Rathravane and they saw a hare there/ They waved their hands to frighten the hare, but he only grinned at them. The men then went home thinking it was a fairy.
- Collector
- Thomas Kingston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathruane More, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Thomas Kingston
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Rathruane More, Co. Cork
