School: Tuar, Tulach Sheasta (roll number 15526)
- Location:
- Toor, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Síghle Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0540, Page 127
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- Light goes across a bog in Knockahopple and down along the fields. Then it goes up along a river and into a fort on the land of Patrick Clifford, Foilduff. Several people saw lights. Patrick Ryan, Fiddane, Newport saw a light before his uncle died. Laurence Ryan Rossaguile saw a light near his own house and several faces through it. There is a fort in Rossaguile and it is haunted. There was a big ball of light seen there one night.
There was a man named Mathew Ryan who had to play a fiddle to keep away the fairies. Thomas Carr, Cully, Newport saw a white woman near the fort.
Long ago people started making a house near a valley in Boolatin. When they laid out foundation there was a grave dug in the middle(continues on next page)
