School: Greaghagarran
- Location:
- Gréach an Ghearráin, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: B.Nic Fhearghusa
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1014, Page 316
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- (continued from previous page)them and heard music come from Carrickacronin fort, and go towards Turfad fort.
In the parish of Killenkere there are four fairy forts, two in the townland of Greaghadussin one in Greaghadoo, and one in Greaghalough. By standing on top of any one of them the other three can be seen. All four are circular with trees and bushes growing in them. There is a mound of earth all around each one of them and a large stone beside each which seems to have marked the entrance. It is said that the Danes had caves in those forts, in which caves they had weapons of war. Although fairies are believed to inhabit those forts now, no noises are ever heard in them and no lights seen around them. Except that their cattle graze over them, the farmers who own the land never till them when tilling the remainder of the fields in which they are situated.
- Collector
- Mary Kelly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
