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School: Mághthobair (Mohober), Dúrlas Éile (roll number 7048)

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Mohober, Co. Tipperary
Teacher:
Máirtín Ó Mathghamhna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0562, Page 130

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    forts and the noise of Lancers. It is said that if a person cut a tree in a fort that his cattle would all die. A man near Ballingarry went out to cut a tree in a fort and the next morning one of his best horses was dead in the stable.
    A man with a hump on his back went to a fort to be cured by the fairies. He went in the night time. The fairies opened the door and let him into a grand parlour. He never had such a night - dancing and singing, and the nicest music ever he heard. After enjoying himself he drank too much. Before he went in they took the hump off him. He knocked down their furniture on the floor. The fairies got vexed and they put the hump on him again. When he was going out they had a hump they took off another and they put it on him again and he had two humps while he lived. This happened near Ballingarry, Thurles, Co Tipperary a long time ago.
    The forts are in view of each other from Mohober to Modeshill. In former times fairies took away children to their forts. They would take away a good healthy child and leave the sickly elf. The forts were called raths by the old people.
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    There is a fairy fort in Mr. James Cahill's farm Gragaugh, Ballingarry, Thurles, Co. Tipperary in the townsland of Gragaugh. it is a round fort and it was the greatest fort in the district years ago. There were large plum trees growing around it. Mr. Cahill wanted to cut down the trees but he would not cut them
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Doheny
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Harleypark, Co. Tipperary
    Informant
    Mr Richard Doheny
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    63
    Address
    Harleypark, Co. Tipperary