School: Cnoc Aoibhinn (Mount Pleasant) (C.) (roll number 13501)

Location:
Mountpleasant, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Bean Mhic Géaraidh
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 234

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0090, Page 234

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Cnoc Aoibhinn (Mount Pleasant) (C.)
  2. XML Page 234
  3. 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

  1. There are fairy forts in the school district. (Ballyglass, Co Mayuo).
    They are called forts. They are within view of each other.
    They are circular in shape. There is a fence of earth with trees on the top around each.
    Fairies were supposed to live in them. People do not plough or plant in these forts for it is supposed to be unlucky to interfere
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Teresa Finnerty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Ballyglass, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Micheal Finnerty
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyglass, Co. Mayo