School: Lisnagirl (2)
- Location:
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Thaicnigh
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- (continued from previous page)not dig any more. That night all his cattle died and when mad. Another day he said to himself the fort ought to be a great place for cabbage. The cabbage grew to be an enormous size but the longer it was boiled the harder it got.
None of the owners ever set anything of laboured in the fort since.
James Mc babe Derryham robbed a birds nest in the fort and that night the window of his house was broken. The people said it was the fairies broke it.
There is a fort in Sheanon's field in Liosmagirl beside John Gillick's house. There used be music and churning in it. A woman named O'Brien living beside it had a goat that she used milk early in the morning. This morning she was going to milk the goat and she went through the fort. On her way she came across a crock of gold. She had a rein with her to put on the goat's leg. She(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bríghid Ní Rathallaigh
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Greaghadossan, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Máire Bean Mhic Uillic
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lismagiril, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Micheal Magh Gabhann
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Proinsias Ó Rathallaigh
- Gender
- Male
