School: St Oran's, Buncrana
- Location:
- Bun Cranncha, Co. Dhún na nGall
- Teacher: Seán Mac Éibhir
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is a fairy fort in Drumanoir, Buncrana and this fort is a round ring of stones. This round ring of stones is built up four or five feet high. This fort is in the middle of a field. This field was never worked. It is just ruff land. It is about three miles from Buncrana.
There is a hole in the middle of the fairy fort in Drumanoir, Buncrana. There was a man went down into this fairy fort and when he came up again he said that he saw a lot of fairies in the fairy fort. A week after he came up he died. The fairies was supposed to build it.
There was a fairy cow seen round the fairy fort in Drumanoir. A man seen this cow when he was [?] for his own cows at night in the field where the fairy fort was. He brought the fairy cow into his byre along with his own cows and when he came to the morning he put out the(continues on next page)
