School: Gort an Ghainimh (roll number 16127)
- Location:
- Gortaganny, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: M. Ó Cobhthaigh
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- (continued from previous page)has it that people who interfered with the forts were taken ill and brought away by the fairies. I even heard of a woman who fell crossing a fort at dusk and when she went home she was taken suddenly ill and never recovered. My father told me that story and he knew the woman well and remembers the night she got ill. In olden times when a young person died the people believed that the fairies or good people took him away.
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- Collector
- Nora Kenny
- Gender
- Female