School: Shanagolden (B.) (roll number 3786)
- Location:
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0483, Page 238
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- (continued from previous page)to allow cattle to graze on a fort, especially after nightfall. There is a local belief that the fairies dwell in the fort, and that if cattle were in or near them by night, the "Good people" would resent their interference, and perhaps "Blast" some of the animals. By "Blasting" is meant to strike them sick with some mysterious disease from which they have very little chance of recovery. Old people also say that if a person took sticks or brushwood out of a fort, he would be carried away by the fairies.It is said that two lights were often seen by night moving out of the Mount David fort, and travelling along a passage in the middle of the field, in which it is situated.
Dan Joe Wall got this account from his father:-
Dan Wall,
Kerry Hill,
Shanagolden.
Age - 42 years.
- Collector
- Dan Joe Wall
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kerrikyle, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Dan Wall
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Kerrikyle, Co. Limerick
