School: Lios Tuathail Buachaillí

Location:
Listowel, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Brian Mac Mathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 545

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1126, Page 545

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    this flag. When you stand in any fort you can see another one and so some people say there is an under ground passage betwen them.
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  2. There was a man of the Dees and he was picking sticks in a fort and he got a thorn in his leg and an old woman came in one day and she told him to go to the graveyard and get three poultices of the fresh earth of the last corpse that was put down and not to spill a grain of it an put it up to it an it will draw it out and and not to spill a grain of it and it got better.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Gerald Doyle
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    12
    Address
    Garryantanvally, Co. Kerry
    Informant
    Mary Doyle
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    41
    Address
    Garryantanvally, Co. Kerry
  3. There was a girl going through a forth one day with butter to a house and she got a pain in her leg and the people came and carried the butter to the house and they carried her home and she got as black as the hob and she died.
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