School: Carrigaline (3) (roll number 12097)
- Location:
- Carrigaline, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Martha Levis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0392, Page 190
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- (continued from previous page)The other two lisses are circular in shape. There was a stonewall around the one in Fahalea but the stones were drawn away by roadmen to repair the roads. There is an entrance hole on top of this liss which is covered with stones. I think nobody has ever gone down through the hole of this liss or explored it. The Danes are said to have built them. It is said they had to live in these at night for protection against the Irish. Fairy people are said to dwell in the liss at Fahalea for many people said they saw them around it. Mrs. Flynn of Brownstown Carrigaline heard music outside the liss in Aghamarta. A Leipreachan was also seen outside this liss by a man named John Long. The owner of the liss in Fahalea named Mr. Thomas Daunt ploughed ridges for potatoes on top of it. They were never dug as the potatoes were supposed to have been stolen by the fairies. There is an underground(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Daunt
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Fahalea, Co. Cork
