School: St Egney's (C.), Buncrana
- Location:
- Buncrana, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Ellen Daly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1112, Page 377
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On Roddy's farm in the townland of Carva, Desertegney there is a fairy-fort underneath the ground. It has seven rooms and a passage runs for more than a quarter of a mile. Roof and floor are flagged. Old people say the Danes made it, and after their time it became a home of the Fairies. Many a time Fairies were heard singing and dancing and on a moonlight night the Fairies could be seen enjoying themselves in the adjoining fields and one the banks of stream which runs past.
The man who claims to have last seen these Fairies is Neal Mc Grory of Sharagore. This was at six o'clock on a fine Summer morning, when the Fairies were playing games on the bridge of the Castleross stream near the fairy fort.
