School: Shanagolden (B.) (roll number 3786)
- Location:
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Loingsigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0483, Page 254
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- Several fairy forts are to be seen in my school district. The name of one of them is Liss Mineac fort.
It is situated in a hollow of a field near a main road about a half mile south of the school. It is circular in shape and there is a fence of bushes all round it. It is an old belief that if a person picked sticks from that fort he would be taken away by the fairies. Inside the outer rampart there is a second one and there is an old trench surrounding each rampart.
At one part of the fort there is a passage leading out of it and it is said that if a person walked around the inside rampart twelve times that he would not come out alive.
- Collector
- Aidan O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Patrick O Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Shanagolden, Co. Limerick
