School: Lacken (C.), Cill Mhichíl (roll number 13827)

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   two men thought to remove the stones and the fairies pulled them out of the bed.
   Forts are very plentiful in this district. There is a fort in Lack East in Jim Shea's lands. The fort is round. There is a large mound of earth remarkable to some extent surrounding it. The fort is covered with bushes. Light is very often seen in this fort. The light shines like a ball. It travels a long hopping, sometimes very large. Noise is very often heard in it. No body interferes with it, because they say it is the home of the fairies. There is a fort at each side of it, about a quarter of a mile away. It is said that any one that ever interfered with it, something happened them. It is often said that people going past this fort were frightened. Two men of the neighbourhood were frightened passing it, they heard great laughing and singing and a crowd of men and women were seen in a car and passed them out. It is often people are put astray in the field near the fort. It is not known who owned this fort long ago. It is said that the Danes owned it.
   There was a battle fought in the "Cahir" a few hundred years ago, there were a few men killed. It is said people

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. local lore, place-lore (~10,595)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Carmody

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lack West, Co. Clare

   Informant

   Mr Michael O' Shea

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   64

   Address

   Lack West, Co. Clare