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School: Old Leighlin

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Oldleighlin, Co. Carlow
Teacher:
C. Ó Broin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0907, Page 029

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    There is a rath and once a man named Thomas Nolan cut the trees there. Some time afterwards a number of lumps grew on his head. The story is that a girl of the Nevin's named Bridie cut a fairy tree in the moat and burned it and after a week or so the girl died and they lost all the cattle. One night late a name was going through the moat field and he saw a ring of fairies dancing and singing. To the present day people would not harm a fairy tree.
    Josephine Murphy
    Knockagarry
    Old Leighlin
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine Murphy
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Knockagarry, Co. Carlow