School: Cnoc an Iubhair (C.)
- Location:
- Kealid, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Máire Ní Cheallacháin
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- (continued from previous page)them that there was a fearful battle fought on the night of the mans illness to keep him alive. She said that it was her who kept him alive.
- "Fort Loin", which means the fort for the blackbirds. There was a amn riding on horse back riding a grey pony with a black star on his forehead his name was "Star Gazer" when passing the fort hearing of the old superstition that fairies used appear in forts he gazed half reluctantly into the fort and to his surprise he saw a leperachaun puting a Taoibhín on top of a Bróg. The horseman who happened to be a hunchback saluted the leperachaun bidding him good-day which was returned by the leperachaun by "Mind your own business". The hunchback(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Máire Ní Cheallacháin
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Informant
- James Lynch
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Address
- Gortdromagownagh, Co. Kerry
