School: High St. (C.), Belmont
- Location:
- Belmont, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Annie Phelan
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- XML “The Ratheen in Cloughill”
- XML “An Old Rath near Belmont”
- XML “A Fairy Fort in Glebe”
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- (continued from previous page)there were thunder and lightning and the lightning damaged the house. They thought this was a punishment for starting to cut the trees in the rath and they never interfered with it again.
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- Collector
- Margery Duffy
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Thomas Duffy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Moystown Demesne, Co. Offaly
- There is a fairy fort in Glebe. Long ago fairies were ween kicking football and dancing there on the moon-lit nights. One day a man named Mick Gorman went to cut sticks in the fort. A fairy with a red jacket(continues on next page)