School: Castlegrove (roll number 15475)
- Location:
- Castlegrove East, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Liam Ó Conaill
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- (continued from previous page)There is one in Kilconly, and another in Kilshanry. They are all round. There are holes in the middle of them. There are bushes all round them. There are circular places all round them where there was water. People often went into them. There was never anything seen in them. There is a Lios in our own fields, and it was ploughed up and potatoes sowed in ridges in it. The next morning after they were sowed the footprints of young children were seen on the ridges. The potatoes never grew. The ridges are still to be seen.
Long ago children that were unbaptised when they died were buried in it. The graves are still to be seen. Some old people say that the Irish made them to protect themselves from the Danes. Others say they were made by the Tuatha de Danainn. Others say they were made by the Fir bolg. I often saw hares and weazels coming out of them. People believe it is not right to cut any of the bushes around them. Old people say that fairies live in the Lisses, and that they(continues on next page)
- Collector
- David Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lissananny, Co. Galway
- Informant
- David Devaney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Lissananny, Co. Galway
