School: Séipéal na Carraige (roll number 5478)
- Location:
- Rockchapel, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Donncha Ó Géibheannaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0351, Page 268
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- Our forefathers believed that forts were dwelling places for fairies and some people believe it still because often by night, light is seen in forts.
There is a large fort in Mr Dan Duane's land of Kielnahulla. A little girl was living near the place, aged about twelve or thirteen years. Her name was Twomey. She was passing this fort every day going to Boherbue school. One morning a red-haired woman came out of the ford and carried the girl in and kept her minding a child all day. When she went home that evenin, she told it to her mother. Cattle were always dying in her people at home. Her mother told her if the red haired woman would ask her in the following day to ask her, - What would cure their cattle. When the girl was coming home next evening, the red haired woman gave her a bunch of herbs, and told her to boil them in water and to wash all their cattle with the water. her mother boiled the herbs and washed all the family of the house first with the water, and afterwards all the cattle they had.
Next day the girl was going to school, the woman came out of the fort(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Curtin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Jermiah Nolan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glennakeel South, Co. Cork
