School: Áth Treasna (B.) (roll number 11236)
- Location:
- Newmarket, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Dálaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0353, Page 157
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- (continued from previous page)would hear the child crying they would take it into the fort, and return the proper child.
The owners of the forts do not interfere with them in any way, because they are afraid that themselves, their family or their property would be cursed by the fairies
- There is a fort in Scarteen in William O Keefe's land. Some years ago three men ploughed the fort, and before six months were up, the three men were dead.
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“My father told me that unbaptized children were buried in the fort in Mr Murphy's land”
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- Donal Shine
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Liscongill, Co. Cork
