School: The Rower (B.), Inistioge (roll number 15160)

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1. Fairy Forts (continued)

   

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   would shoot off in a different direction. Then men were afraid to stir an inch afraid the stones would hit them. After about ten minutes the stones stopped falling and the men went home, but they were almost afraid to go to bed. The names of these two men are Tommy Walsh, and Joe Galavan. Dancing, and music is heard nearly every night in Galavan's rath. Tommy Walsh also heard that. One night he was coming home from fishing, and he heard some noise. The nearer he went towards the rath the louder the noise became. In the end it seemed like music. He was afraid at first to go to the rath, but after a while he picked up courage and walked straight to the rath. When he reached the spot he heaard dancing and music all around him, but he could see nobody. After a whle singing started and he flew for his life. Heheard the noise until he reached home. All these raths are square in shape. The fields in which they are were never ploughed. There is an orchard in Ballavarra, and fairies are supposed to be heard ringing a bell there every night. The bell is supposed to have belonged to a church which was there in the penal times. At that time the orchard was a field. One day the people of the district were at Mass there, and the English captured them, and the bell was left there and the English buried it. One night a man wa passing the field, and he heard the bell ringing

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   Topics

   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. áiteanna osnádúrtha agus spioradálta (~158)
         1. ráthanna (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Patrick Galavan

   Gender

   Male

   Informant

   Michael Murphy

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   52

   Address

   Cnoc an Tuair, Co. Chill Chainnigh