School: An Drom (Drom Thurles) (roll number 585)
- Location:
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Teachers: Pilib Ó Ó Muireadhaigh Pádraig Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0550, Page 307
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- (continued from previous page)would be stopping to hear them telling stories and to listen to them singing.
- 1. There is a fort in a field belonging to Mr. Thomas Troy, townland of Drom, parish of Drom, Co. Tipperary. The Danes are supposed to have built it. Fairies are supposed to have been living in it.There is a remarkable larch tree in it. The branches of it grew as long as the trunk of it. Instead of the branches growing up, they grew out. Lights used to be seen there. A wild cat used be seen there long ago. A man had a sheep dog, a spaniel and a setter, and he was living near the fort. He went into the fort and the cat attacked him but the spaniel killed it. People were buried there.
- Collector
- Rita Cahill
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- Thomas Troy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drom, Co. Tipperary
- 2. There is a "fairy fort" in a field belonging(continues on next page)
