School: Firoda (roll number 2788)
- Location:
- Firoda Upper, Co. Kilkenny
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Meachair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0865, Page 205
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - Jackman's rath is in Barna. Their house is built upon the fairy's path, every night when the fairies pass, the plates shake on the dresser. There is a little hole to go in. A little man is seen there about 12 o'clock in the night.
There is a fort in Knockmager. One stormy night the wind knocked a fairy bush and the people of that townsland(continues on next page) - There is a fairy rath in Firoda. One day a man was ploughing the field outside the rath. He ploughed up a part of the rath. Michael Coady went home to his dinner in the middle of the day, and took the horses home with him. When he had eaten his dinner he went out to yoke the horses, but they both were dead, and the sods that he had ploughed were turned back.
