School: Kilcullen (B.)

Location:
Kilcullen, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Pádraig Ó Broin
Browse
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776D, Page 18_012

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0776D, Page 18_012

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: Kilcullen (B.)
  2. XML Page 18_012
  3. XML “Fairy Forts”
  4. XML “My Home District”

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. (continued from previous page)
    on the Harristown road. One night a man was coming home late. When he came to the fort he saw the fairies playing football. They asked him to play but he refused. Then they took him by force, and did not let him home for a fortnight.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.