School: Ring, Dalahasey (roll number 9111)
- Location:
- Ring Commons, Co. Dublin
- Teacher: M. Ní Reachtaire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0783, Page 82
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- (continued from previous page)each other in one field, while the other one is in a field to itself. On this account it is called "the One Moat" and the field that it is in is called "the Round Table". Those fairy moats are believed to be the homes of the fairies in our district.They are round or circular in shape, and are high. The tops of them are covered with "green grass".It is told that music is to be heard every night playing on the hill. The people of the district tell that every v (night) just as the sun is setting over the hill a great number of horsemen is seen as in a procession, riding through the hill. They are said to be around and behind them playing "Martial Music".Great misfortune is supposed to befall the person who meddles the moats."If any man so daring to dig them up in spite, Will feel their sharpest thorns in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bridie Harford
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Walshestown, Co. Dublin
