There is a fort in Dick Sheahan's land in Cnoc Meadonac. The Twomeys lived there before him. A certain woman was sending her little girl to school. The little girl never went to school but went in to this fort. One day the teacher met the girl's mother and she asked why was she not sending her little girl to school. The mother said she was sending her to school every day.
One day they watched her and saw where she was going. When she came home from school the mother asked her why she went into the fort. The girl said that a Red Haired woman came out every morning and asked her to go in to mind a little baby in the fort. The cattle were dying at home and the mother told the child to ask for a cure. The girl went and got the "wash" from the Red Haired woman. When she
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