School: Clais, Athea (roll number 15100)
- Location:
- Keale, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Liam Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)his shoulders and he said to the man that he would help him. After a while he found he was carrying the coffin alone himself and he was afraid to leave it down so he kept on walking till he went into another fort and he saw an old queen sitting on a chair and he also saw a large pot over a big fire and a man inside in it there were a few small little men sitting on the ground. He walked out of the fort and when he came out the coffin was gone off his back. Thomas Ledhy Knockanure dug up the stones of a fort in his farm and after that his back got bended nearly to the ground. A man named John Scanlon was crossing Banaraha fort one night and he saw a light in the fort and as he drew near the fort he saw a man standing beside him and has a tree in his hand. He laid the tree beside the fence and the tree grew up and it is to be seen there to this day. Music is to be heard in a fort in John(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggie Dalton
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas O' Halloran
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 32
