School: Clochar na Trócaire, Nenagh
- Location:
- Nenagh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. Seanán
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- (continued from previous page)time there was a husband and wife living about two hundred yards from the fort. The wife was always afraid to go near the fort, and her husband said to her one day. "I am not afraid to go near that fort, I am going there this evening to get the makings of a hurley for young Tom O'Brien." His wife begged him not to go, but he did not mind her. When he had his tea, he went to cut the hurley off the tree, but some fairies came and kept him in the fort. It was getting late, about half past eleven and his wife was getting anxious so she went to the fort. Before she expected anything her husband was coming out of the fort and she cried out to him "Come home, Come home" and he said "don't you see I am held". Then the wife heard a voice saying "If you sow four elm trees within half an hour and I will let your husband go." She did so and her husband never went near the fort again.
- Collector
- Alice Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Ballintogher, Co. Tipperary
