School: Gleann Fleisge
- Location:
- Glenflesk, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Donnchadh Ó Spiolláin
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- (continued from previous page)fort. They used dance upon the level banks. Any one that would pass the road very late at night they would keep him on the road for the night or carry him into the fort until morning and they would put the man to sleep and when he would wake in the morning all the fairies would be gone. The people would get little caps and hats and fifes after the night but they used be afraid to take anything. There are big holes under parts of the bank and if you ran around it you would hear an empty sound in some parts of it especially on the northern side. There are badgers and rabbits living in the holes now. There is a ditch of stone about six feet high and four feet broad running from the road to the bottom of the field on the eastern side and there is no ditch only briers on the northern side. There is a ditch about a feet on the western side. There are five haggards on the western part of the fort and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Owen Spillane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Lough Guitane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- James Counihan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 85
- Address
- Lough Guitane, Co. Kerry