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1. Ráthanna agus Liosanna (continued)

   

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   The Danes used live in them and no one could get in to them because of the dike of water. My grandfather heard this story when he was small from an old man. A man went from Dunmore to Spain looking for work. When he got there he went in to a house in which was a very, very old man. The old man asked him where he came from and he said from Dunmore. The old man said "Did you know a place called Loud Lodge. The man said he did. Well said the old. "I left my razor and a box of snuff on a table in the fort in that village. If you go back to the fort and get the razor I will pay you well." The man went back to Dunmore and got the razor. The old man got up and shaved himself, and he was changed into a young man. Animals were never seen at the fort, and light were never seen. Music was never heard either. There was a English-man named Roper living in Feamore house who interfered with the lios in Knockvanie. He gathered a meitheal to help him level it. No one would lift the first sod so he did it himself. They leveled half of it that day. Roper was found dead in the bed next morning. People say it was the fairies who killed him because he interfered with the lios.

   

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Máire Cáit Ní Reachtaire

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Stripe, Co. Galway

   Informant

   Pádhraic Ó Reachtaire

   Relation

   Grandparent

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   80