School: Sráid na Cathrach (C.) (roll number 8851)

Location:
Milltown Malbay, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Úna, Bean Uí Bhroin
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    Forts.
    There is a fort in Ballyvaskin .
    There lived near the fort a native Irish nurse the wife of a small farmer.
    Her husband was dead and she was in very poor circumstances .
    She was brought from her home by two stranger people and asked if she would nurse a sick woman from twelve o'clock at night until the cock crew in the morning .
    She thought
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Fitzgerald
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Clare
    Informant
    Mr John Crowe
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Carrowkeel, Co. Clare