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   up and they were deaf and dumb until they were eighty years old.

   There was a boy and he was a terrible night-walker. One night he was coming across the fields near a fort. The fort was in Lynch's land of Ahafona, Ballybunion. He met a few men with a coffin on their shoulders facing the fort. He asked them what they had in the coffin and they said "You needn't mind". He said he would soon know it. He took it in spite of them and put it on the grass. He took off the lid of the coffin. They was a young girl inside. He took her up and carried her home and he woke up his mother and she told him who she was and she went for her house. When he went the mother was crying inside at the table over a thing she thought was her daughter. So he told her not to be crying that he had her daughter. So four men rushed in and swept the corpse off the table and disappeared. So the following day the girl came home safe.

   

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2. Forts

   

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   My father told me that there is a fort in Sheahamn's land at Cleveragh Listowel

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Tom Lyons

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Listowel, Co. Kerry

   Informant

   Ned Lyons

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Listowel, Co. Kerry