School: Firoda (roll number 2788)

Location:
Firoda Upper, Co. Kilkenny
Teacher:
Dáithí Ó Meachair
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    and you polish your boots on Sunday you will have bother with the cattle.
    If a horse had a foal on Whit-Sunday that foal will harm him-self or someone.
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  2. 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
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Thomas Kavanagh
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Ed Kavanagh
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Skehana, Co. Kilkenny