School: Cluain Meacan (roll number 11451)
- Location:
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Liam Ó Catháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0406, Page 313
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“There is a fairy fort near our school and it is said that fairy people lived there long ago.”
There is a fairy fort near our school and it is said that fairy people lived there long ago. There is a big ditch around it and trees planted on top of the ditch. It is said that a man long ago went one evening in the month of May and when he went in he opened a door which was on the ground and he went down about a mile under the ground and he went into a room and he saw no one inside.
He went to the press and opened it and he got a big bag of money. When he was coming out of the fort he met a man and the man asked him where was he going and he said he was coming out from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peg Leahy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Ned Galvin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 63
- Address
- Cloonmackon, Co. Kerry