School: Baile Dháithí, Dunlavin
- Location:
- Davidstown, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Róisín Bhreathnach
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- In our day, we call "Forts" Raths. Around every rath there is a little ditch, and there is a place left for an entrance, through which the fairies used to go in and out.
When you are in a rath, you can always see three others It is not lucky to build a house on one of these "passes" (between the raths). / something always happens to it.
Phil Lewis' house, in Donard, is built on the path or "pass" going from the rath in Knockindarrow to the one on the Ball Moat. He can never keep the part of the roof over the door thatched - there is always a little place that is(continues on next page)- Collector
- Larry Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow
- Informant
- Murtagh Nolan
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- c. 60
- Address
- Donard, Co. Wicklow