School: Cnoc an Doire (C.) (roll number 2419)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teachers: Nóra Ní Chorcoráin Maire Nic Chárthaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0460, Page 305
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“The old people believed that one should never plough a fort.”
(continued from previous page)"I can" said the tailor. Then the child took out the bagpipes from under the pillow and began to play and the tailor began to dance and sing.
The child told the tailor not the tell the woman of house what happened. When the child saw the woman coming, the music stopped, and the child began crying. This secret weighed heavily on the tailor's mind, and when he found the strain too great he told the secret to the woman of the house. The woman was frightened, and she went for the priest, an the priest came to the house, he blessed the cradle. The woman then got back her healthy baby and the priest said the other child was a fairy child. Hence the belief has come that the fairies injure anyone who interfere with a fort.
Paddy Brosnan
Gerah
Farranfore
(Sheila Brosnan)
- Collector
- Sheila Brosnan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Paddy Brosnan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gearha, Co. Kerry