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   never married, but they lived happily and well to the day they died.
   (I got this from my father James Coyle 60 farmer, Liscomiskey).

   

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   Treasure is supposed to be hidden in the fort in Liscomiskey. It was gold that a rich man of long ago hid in under a big stone, and then he died and left it there. A farmer in Liscomiskey named James McPhillips went up to get the gold. He moved the stone round with a pick. Then he stooped to lift it off and something from in under it bit him in the eye and from that day to the day he died he had a turned eye. There was a man in Tattenclave named James Murphy. One day he went up to Tattenclave fort to dig sods to put on his house to keep out the rain. When he woke the next morning the hair was all away off his head, and the sods were away off thehouse, and it was the fairies of the fort did

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      1. neacha neamhshaolta agus osnádúrtha (~14,864)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Frank Moyna

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   13

   Address

   Táite an tSléibhe, Co. Mhuineacháin

   Informant

   Pat Beagon

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   73

   Occupation

   Farmer

   Address

   Droim Loinne, Co. Mhuineacháin