School: Na Cealla (Kells) (roll number 8148)
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Fiannachta
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0476, Page 111
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- There is an old Lios in Ballinacille near Glenbeigh, there is a big hole running under the ground like a tunnel. Singing is heard there at night and the fairies are supposed to be seen there at present.There is a story told by the old people how one night a young boy was walking along the road whistling and singing. He saw a sod of turf on the road; he hit it with a kick and put it in over the ditch and it landed at the mouth of the Lios; the following day his leg swelled up and kept at him all the time for about a month. After he died the people said that it was a fairy stroke he got.
- Collector
- Tom Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Gleensk, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Ellie O' Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 54
- Address
- Gleensk, Co. Kerry
- Tá alán liosanna agus fothracha tímcheall na h-áíte agus deirtear gurbh íad san na h-áiteanna a chómhnaigh na Sídhe. Tá liosachán mór i Cnocáinín ó Fhólugha. Oidhche amháin chúaidh na búachaillí óga isteach ins an lios agus bí choimeall ag lasa acha agus bhí cháirdín(continues on next page)
