School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 046
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“Long ago there lived a man in the townland of Corracreenie who went to cut a hedge around a fort.”
Long ago there lived a man in the townland of Corracreenie who went to cut a hedge around a fort. His neighbours advised him not to cut it or the fairies would haunt him, but he said he did not care about fairies.
One morning he set off to cut the hedge and as he lived alone he locked the door. About this time he had got a new suit which he left hanging in his bedroom. When he returned on that evening he found that his suit was burned and the buttons which were on his coat were piled in a little heap on the hearth, the buttons which were on his waistcoat were in another heap, and the buttons which were on his trousers were in a third heap, and from that day until the day he died he never went near a fort, because he believed that it was the fairies burned his clothes
- Collector
- Eileen Smyth
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Allister
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan