School: Na Cnocáin (roll number 13150)
- Location:
- Knockanes, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Bean Uí Spealáin Máiréad Ní Laoghaire
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“There is a fort about two miles to the east of this school in a field called Pairc Leara - fairies used to be seen there every night long ago playing football...”
There is a fort about two miles to the east of this school in a field called Pairc Leasa - fairies used to be seen there every night long ago playing football. One night a man was out late playing cards. He wanted to go a near way home and he went across a field in which the fairies were. They all ran into the fort when they saw him. He walked into the fort after them but he could not make his way out. After a while he fell fast asleep and when he awoke in the morning he found his hair had turned grey. He died a few days afterwards.
Tim Crowley
Old Bridge
Headford
- Collector
- Tim Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Con Crowley
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Headfort, Co. Kerry