School: Drummond
- Location:
- Drummin, Co. Carlow
- Teacher: P. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0903, Page 431
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- John Brennan of Ballinalour owns land and in one of his fields there is a fairy rath as the people around here call it. The rath is full of big trees and bushes and an earthen or clay ditch surrounds it with here and there a gap like an entrance. Water always lies around this place and there is a well close to it. The people who own any of these never cut trees for they think it would be unlucky. I never heard anyone say that anything was ever seen round these places.
- Collector
- Mary B. Irwin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Bigwood, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- William Gladney
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Bigwood, Co. Wexford
