School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 510
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- (continued from previous page)fort for the sticks and when she was coming home with the bundle of sticks she became quite foolish and she was a very long time before she could find her way home.
- My mother told me that her mother told her that there was a fort in Griffin's land in Castleisland and they called it Griffin's Fort. My mother said when her cousin used to be going home every night and they used to call him the corner Mahony. The fairies used to come out and start dancing around him. One night he was going the fields and the fairies came out and started dancing around him.
He took out his pen-knife and cut a stick out of the fort and when he had(continues on next page) - Collector
- Edmond O' Connell
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- M. O' Connell
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
