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School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Lic Snámha (roll number 11849)

Location:
Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
An tSr. Gabriel
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0410, Page 330

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  1. Forts - Aghabeg Fort

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    There is a fort also in Ahabeg owned by Pat Costello. It is said that a woman comes from this fort every night as far as Ahabeg Cross. One night as a man was returning home he met her.
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Eileen Browne
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Lixnaw, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mary Brosnan
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    75
    Address
    Lixnaw, Co. Kerry

  2. Forts - Aghabeg Fort

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    Mary Walshe from Ahabeg was going to Mass one Sunday when she heard a girl singing while milking a cow. She went up on the ditch of the fort but she could not see anyone. Suddenly she fell down and got paralysed and had to be taken home Fr. Roche was brought to her. She got well again but ever after she had a lame step and she never
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