School: Corlatallon (roll number 12096)
- Location:
- Corlattallan, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Mrs Atkinson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0959, Page 378
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- (continued from previous page)music like a violin. Another story is told how they used to take children away & put another there in its place
this happened at Killylara near Errigal
another woman grabbed it from them she told them to put on a good fire & she threw the crying child into it & it went up the chimney. The fairies would allow children which the took & reared to come back & give news to human beings.If these forts were interfered with by any one there cattle would die
About three years ago a man cut down a tree in Cloughnart fort, in a short time his horse was dead. Another time about nine years ago a man named Browne cut a fairy bush
the teats were off his cow next morning.
In Corragh a man named McCrudden cut down a bush & his animals died
Lights & music were plentiful. At present Corragh fort is in cultivation.At Killylara there was a small(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Wilkinson
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Emyvale, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Miss C. Armour
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Cloghnart, Co. Monaghan
