School: An Clochar, Dún ar Aill (roll number 4268)

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1. Fairy Forts (continued)

   

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   him who he was, and from whence he came. The leprecaun answered in a sweet enticing voice that he was a fairy and had come from a beautiful land flowing with milk and honey. The man anxious to get a crock of gold from him asked him very politely for it, and after some hesitation, the leprecaun handed him a beautiful crock full of gold, but as the man was about to depart for him, the leprecaun invited him to come to "the liss" on the following night at the same hour so that he would receive another crock of gold. The man consented to come but he had no notion of keeping his promise. He had the crock of gold now, and he never thought of what the leprecaun said to him when he was about to depart from him. He had no luck with the gold but sank to the depths of misery on account of disobeying the "magic one".
   The Danes are said to have built the lisses for protection. The Danes were hiding in the "Fairy Liss" in some underground passage in which nobody could harm them, but there is no entrance hole to be seen there now. Fairies were supposed to be living there, because there was a house built on "the liss". The priest blessed the house before the occupants lived in it, for fear the occupants might go insane.

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bidsie Sheehan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Clogher, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mrs O' Regan

   Gender

   Female

   Age

   80

   Address

   Clogher, Co. Cork