Scoil: Ballyduff B. N. School

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1. Fairy Forts

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   There was a man living in Dromartin, and he usually went gambling every night. On his way home he had to pass by a fort. One night he was coming home, and it was very late altogether. As he was passing the fort, he saw a black cow coming out of one of the gaps in the fort. He knew the cow at once. It was a cow of his own, that died in one of his fields a couple of days before that. He went over and caught the cow's tail. She ran into the fort, and the man kept on to the tail. The man kept his hold although the cow ran down a big hole in the fort. There were several men and women down the hole, and they were laughing at him. They shouted at him to let the cow go. He was very courageous and he said he would not let go his hold, until he would get his cow or the price of another one. They told him that there would be £12 on the threshold of his door the next morning. He got up very early the next morning, and found the money there. He set off for the fair, which happened to be held that day, and bought a cow for the £12.
   He brought her home and they could not get vessels to contain all the milk she had.

   

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   Topaicí

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Faisnéiseoir

   Mr John Browne

   Inscne

   Fireann

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