School: Cill Chothrach, An Sciobairín
- Location:
- Kilcoe, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Spealáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0294, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)They are round in shape. There is a fence of earth and trees around them. There is no entrance hole in the center of them.
No one ever went down into the fairy forts to find out what was there. When the Danes were in Ireland long ago the people built these forts to protect themselves.
- Once upon a time in a place called Leap There were two old men named Patrick O'Driscoll and William Collins. They were coming home from town late in the night. It was said that Patrick O'Driscoll lived with the fairies and he knew all about them. As they parted he told the other man to hurry home for it was as much as he could do if he were in home or near it before a funeral came along and overtook him on the road. True for it Patrick because he was only just inside his door when it passed by. It was a great big one with many people walking and some on saddle horses with women riding behind them. He went in home then and never saw them again.
- Collector
- Kathleen Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mary Keating
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Hollyhill, Co. Cork
