School: Baile Choitín (C.) (roll number 16110)
- Location:
- Ballycotton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Rignigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0394, Page 147
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- There are many Fairy Forts to be seen around this district yet. They are called by many different names, raths, lisses, shees, and Fairy Forts. There was a Fairy Fort in the land of a certain man who lived in Ballybane and one day he was ploughing the field that the Fort was in and he said to himself that the fort was taking up too much room and that he would plough it up. The very minute he started ploughing it up he fainted and later on he died and one by one ever one of his family as well. The old people say that gold is buried in many of them but that a curse will fall on anyone who tried to get it. It is also said that music is heard on certain nights of the Forts.
- Collector
- Martin J. Barry
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloyne, Co. Cork
