School: Teampoll Tuaithe, Teampoll Mór (B.) (roll number 16250)

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1. The Fairy Rock (continued)

   

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   the fourth match he said: "If it is the devil himself is in it, I'll light this one", and so saying he saw a ball of fire jump out of one of the traps and away with him. The Fairy Rock by Mrs. Fitzpatrick Tullow, Age 68 At the back of Keenaghan’s house in the vicinity of Templetuohy there are two very old forts with a car road between them. On this old road there are some large rocks. One day the owner of the farm decided to remove some of the rocks. He went out with a workman early in the morning taking with them a large sledgehammer and a jumper. They worked very hard all day until dinnertime, having only bored one rock. It was so hard a stone that they tried, in three different parts of this rock to bore a hole in it. They left the jumper in the rock while they were at their dinner but took the sledge in with them. When they returned the jumper was driven down the whole way though the rock, supposed to be done by the fairies. They left the bar where it was having got a terrible fright. The three holes each about three inches deep and the six feet jumper driven through

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mr Fitzpatick

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   68

   Address

   Tullowmacjames, Co. Tipperary