School: Béal Átha na Sluagh (Buachaillí)
- Location:
- Ballinasloe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam P. Mac an Bháird
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0029, Page 0096
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- Fairy FortsLong ago people used to say that there was such things as fairies. So to-day we hear a good deal of talk about them. On the Ballinasloe Mental Hospital ground there is a forth that belonged to the fairies with a row of threes around it and a deep dike or drain around the trees to prevent any disturbers from entering in to the surroundings. It seemed as if there was a gentle-mans house there at one time and that they call it a fairy fort at present. It is told that a man from out the country that was going home from town and he sat down on the ditch to take a rest and he dozed off and he fell fast asleep. So at the early hours of the morning the man was carried of to a place called Toher and he never knew where he was but he suspected that it was the fairies that took him off.Told by
Joan Kilalea
12/10/38
- Informant
- Joan Kilalea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- River Street, Co. Galway
