School: Rush Hall, Mountrath (roll number 12231)

Location:
Rush Hall, Co. Laois
Teacher:
P. Ó Lochlainn
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 337

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0825, Page 337

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Rush Hall, Mountrath
  2. XML Page 337
  3. XML “Travelling Folk”
  4. XML “Fairy Rath”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. (continued from previous page)
    hundred pounds found stitched in his coat. When the would come to the door the first thing he would ask for was a piece of thread he would never say what he wanted it for. People say they often remarked the stitches in his coat.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
  2. There is a fairy rath in John Kavanagh's of Derryduff. There was music heard in it. It is on a height and there was a fence around it but the fence is not there now, there are trenches around it. There was a crock of gold found in it about one hundred and fifty years ago. A man by
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Lalor
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    55
    Occupation
    Dress-maker
    Address
    Coolrain, Co. Laois