School: Castlesampson
- Location:
- Castlesampson, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Aodh Ó Fithcheallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0269, Page 270
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- (continued from previous page)Joe Craven (dead) found a fairy pipe and candle just outside side entrance (no account of what he did with them)
A horse load of gold is hidden inside.
A black cat is to be seen at one top entrance.
Patrick Craven (Church Park) saw three little men dressed in red come out of it.
Churning was heard in it long ago.
Patrick Craven and Thomas Cunniffe both of Church Park, were watching traps near the entrance one cold night about 50 years ago. They lit a fire and it was immediately blown sky high. Patrick Craven is still alive.
- As told to Mary Downey by her father Johnny Downey, aged 50 of Clonokill.There is a hole in the ground near Carrowduff Rly. Station. Fairies are believed in live in it. Churning and music have been heard in it. Lights were seen in it. No account of any of those during the last twenty years. Nobody has ever interfered with it. There is no account of gold or other treasure being hidden in it.
- Collector
- Mary Downey
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonoghill, Co. Roscommon
- Informant
- Johnny Downey
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Cloonoghill, Co. Roscommon
