School: An Cnocán Bán, Áth Treasa (roll number 12999)

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   and could not stir. The other girl ran home and told her father. He brought on the horse and cart and took her home.
   She was very ill and died a month later.

   

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2. Fairy Forts

   

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   There is a fort in Tureendaniel in a field of Denis O'Sullivan's. The ruins of it are still to be seen. It is enclosed around with a stone fence. People say should never go in to it. There is light seen in this fort very often and music is heard. There is another fort a few fields away from this fort in a field of Patrick Browne's. This fort is supposed to be very remarkable, because long ago people used be seen coming out of it and driving in cattle and milking them and driving them out again. People are also to be heard singing beautiful songs and playing beautiful music and dancing. The forts are supposed to mad of stone and earth.

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Hannah O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Informant

   Denis O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   50

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Tooreen Donnell, Co. Cork