School: Carnadough (C.), Newtowncashel
- Location:
- Cornadowagh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chathasaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0753, Page 498
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- (continued from previous page)gold was supposed to be under it. There were matchboxes thrown at them. They kept on looking. The guards told them to have nothing got to do with it. The Danes built them for hiding places. There were bones found in it and light is seen in it.
In James Caseys fort Lisnacusha a man named James Brennan cut scraws in it. When he went to bring them home the next day. They were all put down in the same place again.
Story
In Michael Sheas fort Fermoyle faries were seen churning and making music. One day his father was ploughing in it and he heard them churning and making music. After a while he heard a fairy say "O the dash is broken. Give it to me and I will fix it said the man joking. He went into the dinner and when he came out he saw the dash on the drill. He brought it home and fixed it and left it on the drill again and the fairies brought it home that night. The next day when he went out to plough he saw a plate of pancakes and a cup of tea on the drill and he did not eat them.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Kenny
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cashelbeg, Co. Longford
- Informant
- Daniel Kenny
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cashelbeg, Co. Longford
