School: Tír-Dhá-Ghlas (Terryglass)
- Location:
- Terryglass, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Seán Ó Gliasáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0530, Page 502
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“There is an old fort in Firmount, Carrigahorig...”
There is an old fort in Firmount, Carrigahorig, and there lived near it, about eighty years ago a young man named Harty. This young man was in the habit of returning home late at night from cuaird.
One night, as usual, after a late cuaird he was coming near home, a horseman galloped up to him. Before he knew what was happening Harty was swung up on the horse. There in the fort and around it he was kept out all night galloping round and round. In the fort he heard the most beautiful singing and music the whole night long.
At cock crow in the early morning the fairy horseman disappeared, and the young man went home and got to bed. When his friends inquired where he spent the night he replied that if they saw what he had seen during the night they would not ask him where he was.
He never arose from his bed and after an illness of three weeks or so, died.
- Informant
- Mrs Carroll
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 80
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Muckloon, Co. Tipperary