School: Ballinatone, Rathdrum
- Location:
- Ballinatone Lower, Co. Wicklow
- Teachers: Miss Stuart Miss Campbell
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- There is a fairy fort in Glenmalure and a long time ago a man named Byrne started to dig in it. A couple of days after that he lost some of his sheep.
Fairy forts are usually called Raheens [?]
- Collector
- Dolly Corrigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballinacor, Co. Wicklow
- One man near Aughrim went to plough a field in which there was a fairy ring. He ploughed up bones and skulls and one of his horses died while he was ploughing.
- There is a story about Mr Flynn. He was coming home one night and passing by a fairy fort near Whaley he thought he was hitting trees and there were none.
Frank Ellison
Whaley, Rathdrum
