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1. Fairies (continued)

   

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   They fairies were supposed to travel in the whirlwinds hence the name she gees side gaovil.

   There is a rath in the parish of Kilmore and three fellows went to dig it one time and one of them died soon afterwards and the other got a hump on his back, and the other got bone disease. There is another rath called Rath Ronan and there are a lot of fairy ring around it. There was a family lived near it, three or four brothers and they had one sister, she used be taken away every night by the fairies and brought back in the morning. The brothers went to the priest about it and he told them to watch by here bedside all night. They did so but it was as much as

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   History Edit

   Date

   17 Aibreán 1936

   Item type

   Lore

   Writing mode

   Handwritten

   Writing script

   Roman script

   Informant

   • Bean Uí Tiarnaigh