School: Coill Beithne (C.), Baile Mhistéala (roll number 11266)
- Location:
- Kilbeheny, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: -
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“There is a lios near our house it is said to be haunted. The fairies are out around the lios every night.”
There is a lios near our house it is said to be haunted. The fairies are out around the lios every night. There is a stone stair way leading from the river under the ground to the lios that is two fields away from it. There is an other lios not very far away and a graveyard. The fairies are said to be seen passing from one to another. The dead people out of the grave yar used to go in around the house every night.One night a man was passing he heard music in the lios and he saw a great number of little people and they were dancing He saw a light leaving the lios and going to the house near by.There is a blackthorn bush growing in the lios is is said that a blackthorn stick was buried with a soldier and it grew. When the lios was cut and when the graveyard was tilled the people were heard crying around the house that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah Kiely
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Behanagh, Co. Limerick