School: Cnoc an Éin Fhinn (Birdhill) (roll number 13991)

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1. Fairy Forts (continued)

   

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   she came bac to her husband and she told him the way she was taken away and if he liked to bring her back. Then she told him to get four black hearted knives and to place them on the coffin, and to get four men of the same name to carry the coffin. She also told him that when they would be coming near Annagh cross the coffin would get very heavy and would be falling on them and for to lay it down and open it with the four black hearted knives. She told him that if any one put a hand on the coffin it would be of no use. When they were coming near Annagh cross the coffin got very heavy and it was falling on them. One of the men ran and put his hand to the coffin to keep it from falling, and when he did the coffin got light. They they layed down the coffin at the cross and opened it with the four knives, but when they opened it there was nothing in it. The old woman came back again and told the man that there was another chance. She said she would be riding on a grey horse behind the man that took her away such a night as she mentioned beside a gap on the side of a hill at the back of his house, and when they would be passing to make a drive for her and if he brought her he would have her but he failed.

   

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   1. áit-spás-timpeallacht
      1. áiteanna osnádúrtha agus spioradálta (~158)
         1. ráthanna (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Coffey

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Eanach Abhalta, Co. Thiobraid Árann

   Informant

   Michael Coffey

   Relation

   Parent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   30

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Eanach Abhalta, Co. Thiobraid Árann