School: Baile Uaitéir (Walterstown) (roll number 12281)
- Location:
- Walterstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Raghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0386, Page 172
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- This information was given by William Walsh Ashgrove who got it from his father David Walsh who died recently at the age of 92.
There was a Lios in Mr Walsh's field of Ashgrove which is now ploughed up. A woman by the name of Mary Looney saw a pair of white horses at the entrance and heard music inside. There was a fence of white thorns around the lios in which the fairies hid their treasures. There was another lios in Ballymore and while a man by the name of John Sullivan was ploughing around the lios he dropped dead. Another lios was in Mr Ahern's field Ashgrove which is now ploughed up. A man by the name of David Ahern saw a little white dog coming out of the lios.
- Informant
- William Walsh
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ashgrove, Co. Cork
