School: Knocktoosh, Ráthluirc (roll number 12786)
- Location:
- Knocktoosh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghruagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0490, Page 139
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- There is a fort in our land. Lights and men are often seen there. One night my father went to a fair, with a sheep and the and the sheep was after having lambs inside in the fort. He met a fairy when he was coming home and the fairy told him that if he did not bring back the sheep and lambs that his sheep and lambs that he had at home would die. It was true for the fairy, the lambs and sheep began to die and no cure could be got for them until he had to go and bring back the sheep and lambs that belonged to the Fort. Any(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah M. Curtin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rowls (Langford) North, Co. Cork
