School: Cornakill
- Location:
- Cornakill, Co. an Chabháin
- Teacher: J. Fitzsimons
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1024, Page 026
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- (continued from previous page)dressed in little red coats and caps were dancing in the middle of the fort. There were lighs, of every shade hung up on bushes in the centre of the ring. The fairies were playing pipes and dancing around the lights and the men thought they had never heard such music before.
When the men told this through the country the next day several people said they had heard of an underground passage leading from the house to the fort if the entrance could be found. The Donohoes searched several times but could find no opening.
- Informant
- James Dunne
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cornabaste, Co. an Chabháin
