School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí
- Location:
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Brian Mac Mathúna
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- underground walls and there is an underground passage leading to another fort in the farm.
There was a fort in Athea Limerick in a field in the farm owned by the landlords and it is supposed to be haunted by fairies whom the people of the town called the Kileens. One night a man was coming home from Athea and was a bit drunk. He was walking along through the pat in the field and he saw a lovely-three-story house all lit up in one corner of the field. He went over and knocked at the door and was let in. He saw many people dancing whom he knew with other dead people and one girl who he knew who had been dead a long time(continues on next page)
- Collector
- W. Keane
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr Patrick Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Listowel, Co. Kerry
