School: Bilboa (B.) (roll number 15692)
- Location:
- Bilboa, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Seán Ó Heidhin
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- In the district in and around Bilboa there are not many fairy forts. There is a "Liss" in Mr Willie Bourke's field in Bilboa. The liss is surrounded by blackthorn bushes. It is said that horses have been seen at night there. Tom Moloney Bilboa cut a blackthorn stick out of the liss and got a Féirín and was lame until he died.There is another liss in Mr Lloyd's field. It is said that a man was passing by the liss one night and he heard fairies singing. He stood listening for a moment and he began to sing, and when the fairies heard him they came out and took him in. After a while they asked him would like anything to be done for him so he said "Take that lump off my back".
- Informant
- Laurence Hogan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyvoneen, Co. Limerick
