School: Sonna (roll number 1422)
- Location:
- Kildallan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs O' Connell
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0740, Page 140
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- There is a fort in a field outside Ballynacargy, belonging to a butcher named Gibney, and every night the fairies are supposed to be there.
There is a path going through this fort, and there is a stray sod on this path, but it is not known in what place this stray sod is, but if you out you foot on it, you will be led astray.
A story is told of a boy named Gaynor who lives in Ballynacargy being led astray one night coming home from a wake.
He is supposed to have stepped on the stray sod, and his father found him afterwards near Lakenstown about two miles away at a river named Gurtheen.
He was just going to jump this(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Michael Mulligan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 13
- Occupation
- Schoolboy
- Address
- Grange, Co. Westmeath
