School: Baile Locha Riabhach (Clochar)
- Location:
- Loughrea, Co. Galway
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Proinnsias
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0060, Page 0220
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- (continued from previous page)not to play not to play it, or the fairies would do something awful to him.
About four miles outside the town there is a fairy fort, the people call it a lios.
This lios is situated in the course of a field, it is round, with a very small door for its entrance it is surrounded with a hedge and on one side of the lios there is a sandpit.
When the owner of the land in which the lios is situated, is ploughing or harrowing it, he never, interfers with the lios.
People who live near the lios say, that every dim every night about twelve o'clock, and sometimes they hear music, it is said that if any person visits that field, after twelve o'clock in the night, is set astray
- Collector
- Miss E. Forde
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Curheen, Co. Galway
