School: Ednacarnon (roll number 3523)
- Location:
- Edenacarnan South, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Staráid
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1081, Page 138
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- (continued from previous page)was coming down on them. Patchell said that they were very poor and not able to remove it. The little fairy woman told them to remove it and they would get help. This they did, and afterwards improved in the world every day.
The author's mother told him that when wheeling peats out of the moss, and when evening came, it took two of these Patchells - grown boys - to wheel the barrow out unto the road, they were so weak and ill-nourished - this was before the fairy woman appeared to them.Fairy Forts of Ednacarnon. There is a fairy fort at Mr. Colhoun's, Ednacarnon, where the fairies kept their stables. The fort is called the Marcaċ Stable and sometimes the Marcaċ (a rider).
There is another fairy fort in Ednacarnon in the third field in front of our school, called Marcaċ Hill. It is said that the Fairies started from Parke's hill in Killydesart, where some of them were living, and went on horseback to Marcaċ Hill, and all playing fiddles.
Fairies are, in the popular mind, still associated with these spots.
The "Banshee" is still talked of but not much believed in.
- Informant
- Robert Gregg
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 73
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Killydesert, Co. Donegal
