School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 180
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- Outside Borrisoleigh there is a fort called Mike Andrew's. Many stories have been told about this fort; this is one of them.
One night a man was walking by the fort and heard a sound like music. He stopped, listened, and heard the same sound again. He went into the fort and saw a small man dressed in red wearing a green cap and playing a fiddle. The man was very frightened when he saw this sight, and when he looked again the little man had vanished.
- Collector
- Thomas Gleeson
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Knockinure, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Edward Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Coarse Park, Co. Tipperary
