School: Multyfarnham (roll number 2405)
- Location:
- Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Tiomáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0738, Page 286
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Multyfarnham
- XML Page 286
- XML “Fairy Forts”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- Fairy Forts
The only fairy fort I know is situated in Ballinaderra. It is said that fairies used to live in it long ago. It is said that one day the fairies were out in the field playing and a man from Multy came round the fort gathering sticks. He found one with a golden colour on it and he said to himself he would bring it home. He brought it home and put it in the corner of the kitchen and that night when he was asleep he was awakened by a fairy crying for the stick and he got the stick and threw it out the window and in the morning the stick was gone.
- Collector
- Anthony Keogh
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Keogh
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
