School: Loughmoe (C.), An Teampoll Mór (roll number 7594)
- Location:
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Caitlín Ní Riain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0551, Page 145
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- Fairy Forts.
A man named Dan Costigan had two haggards and there was a ditch between them, on which grew a white thorn bush, some said it was part of an old fort.
Dan cut down this bush though warned not to touch it. He got a prod of a thorn in his thumb. The thumb swelled and got bach and he lost it.His wife who burned the bush also got a prod and she also lost a finger.
Collected by; Noreen Ryan Loughmore
Fraom John Dea Loughmore
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- Collector
- Peggy Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
- Informant
- John Dea
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Loughmoe, Co. Tipperary
