School: Maigh Ard
- Location:
- Moyard, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Máirtín Ó Dubhshlain
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- There is a fairy dun in Moyard. It is a hill of rocks and on the top of the rocks there are little trees growing.
There is also a cave in it and every-body that goes in to it must write his name, or the fairies would take them. The people say that the fairies took a young girl to dun and they left a fairy in her place. She is in Moyard to this very day and she is only three feet and half high. She never goes to mass or (speek) speek to anyone. It is divided into halves by a stone wall. One half belongs to Micheal Macgreal and the other belongs to Tom Macdonald. There are hundreds of names written on the walls of the cave.
I heard this story from my Mother who lives in RockfieldFrancis King
- Collector
- Francis King
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Crocknaraw, Co. Galway
