School: Shountrade, Adare (roll number 6657)
- Location:
- Shantraud, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Fhloinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0505, Page 071a
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- On a farm presently owned by Patrick Nash, Kilbreedy, there are two large forts each consisting of a larg circular ring of earth with a row of thorn trees on top. It is situated about two miles to the north of Shountrade, N. School. About twenty five years ago, the men were at dinner in the farm house. The maid went to the kitchen door to empty out some water, a wind blew suddenly and swept the girl away. When she did not return the five work-men spent three days looking for her, on the fourth day she returned. She told them that one of the workmen had almost walked on her, while she lay in the fort invisible with the rest of the fairies. She told the woman of the house that she had found certain articles lying in the bottom of her trunk.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathryn Monckton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmoreen, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- James Kett
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 80
- Address
- Kilbreedy, Co. Limerick
