School: Newtown, Kells (roll number 5053)
- Location:
- An Baile Nua (Shea), Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Teacher: (ní thugtar ainm)
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- (continued from previous page)trees grow around them. Some have pits or holes in the centre others have a hill. These last are called mounds or fairy hills. The people on whose land the forts are do not interfere with them as there is an old superstition that the person does will get some kind of blast or stroke of ill luck. In the month of May especially when blasts of wind pass, people say that they are fairy blasts passing to the fort.
- Collector
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Other names
- Máirín Ní Longáin
- Maureen Lanigan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ceanannas, Co. Chill Chainnigh
- Informant
- Mr John Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 43
- Address
- Buiríos Cheanannais, Co. Chill Chainnigh
