School: Knockjames

Location:
Knockjames, Co. Clare
Teacher:
(name not given)
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0590C, Page 03_035

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0590C, Page 03_035

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Knockjames
  2. XML Page 03_035
  3. XML “A Fort”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. A Fort
    14th February, 1938.
    There is a fort near us. A fort is a place where fairies are supposed to be. A fort is a flat round hill with bushes either white-thorns or furze-bushes growing round it. It is said that a small red dog used to run out and hunt away the cattle. There used to be light seen up in the top of it. There used to be fiddlers heard playing.
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Bridie Halpin
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mr Patrick Halpin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Knockjames, Co. Clare