School: Old Leighlin
- Location:
- Oldleighlin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: C. Ó Broin
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- (continued from previous page)do not interfere with the raths. A story is told that Mr. Cummins, Townasock, cut a bramble off one of the trees to make a halter for a cow. Next morning when he went he found the cow dead. She had been choked by the fairies during the night. Lights and music are supposed to be heard on Hallow nights and on full moon nights. Plenty of people saw a light going from rath to rath. The fairy people are very mischievious and harmful. Once they captured a young maiden from Fennscourt and brought her to a rath in Monmore and they kept her there for a time. One night a neighbour saw her dancing with the other fairies. He ried to capture her but he failed. They decided to guard her and she wsa returned to her home. The fairies never did any harm to anyone in that district after that. People sometimes use charms against the fairies looking with an evil eye on their property.Margaret Neill
Old Leighlin
- Collector
- Margaret Neill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Oldleighlin, Co. Carlow
