School: Killea (roll number 3219)
- Location:
- Killea, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Séamus Mac Coilín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0195, Page 240
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- (continued from previous page)applied as a plaster on the head. Another cure for jaundice consisted of woodbine leaves boiled on water and it was worse then the Jaundice to take this preparation which has a horrible taste.
- Many of these forts or raths exist in Ballaghameehan Parish County Leitrim. The townland of Lisdarush which means the door of the fort has 5 or 6 of these strange mounds and people say it not lucky to to interfere with one of them.
I heard of an old man named Gallagher in Kiltyclogher townland. Parish of Clooneclare who cut a whitethorn on a fairy fort getting a prod of a thorn in his finger while cutting these with the result that his hand became twisted, withered, and finally useless.
The rock near Mrs. Keary's of Straduffy townland was a great haunt of the fairies and I used to hear my grandmother tell that she often heard beautiful music coming from this place. She often saw hundreds of lights(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Rooney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- P.J. O' Rourke
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lugasnaghta, Co. Leitrim
