School: Cill a' Lachtáin
- Location:
- Killallaghtan, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Seosamh Ó hAllmhuráin
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- Fairy FortsI know where there are four fairy forts. One of them is in Castlenancy in Laurence Garvey's land. It is very high and there is a ring of bushes growing round the brink of it . There is a hole in the centre of it and a long narrow underground passage. About five years ago there was a hair in the fort. He had only three legs and although they hunted him several times with dogs and hounds they could not catch him. After a while he was called the three-legged fairy.There is another fort in Foxhal but I don't know much about it. There is another in Springfield in Denis Glyn's land. There is a ring of bushes round the brink of it. It is a round shaped fort.There is another fort in Killalaghton in Thomas Loughnane's land. It is nearly like Glynns only there is a tree growing in the centre of it.
- There is a fort in Lawlesse's field of Oatfield, Cappatagle. Lis na Rup is the name of it. There are three ditches round it and there is a hole in the side of it. You can-(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Hynes
- Gender
- Male
