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Abstract: Story collected by Peter Quinn, a student at Ballystrang school (Ballystrang, Co. Donegal) from informant Patrick Bonner.

Original reference: 1103/1/40

Cuinn, Seosamh Ó [Teacher]

Ireland. Department of Arts, Culture, and the Gaeltacht [Funder]

University College Dublin [Funder]

National Folklore Foundation [Funder]
Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann [Funder]

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County The Schools' Manuscript Collection : County Donegal Schools

COLLECTOR: Quinn, Peter
Gender: male
Location: Cark (Townland)
Convoy (Civil parish)
Raphoe South (Barony)
Donegal (County)

INFORMANT: Bonner, Patrick
Gender: male
Location: Cark (Townland)
Convoy (Civil parish)
Raphoe South (Barony)
Donegal (County)

Story text TEI

transcribed at

A Fairy Fort [duchas:4414830]

Down in a townland called Bruidheann there is a place in which there are fairies. The people near the place, sometimes see a hearse and a funeral after it and the whole of them fairies and they bear a corpse under a big flag there. Some of the people saw the fairy stables. There are a lot of bushes growing around this place and the people say that if any person would break a bit off the bushes some thing would happen to themselves or their cattle. The people say that one night they heard a terrible bit of crying and they never saw a fairy about the place after

A Fairy Fort [duchas:4414831]

that night.

Resource description

Origin information: Ballystrang, Co. Donegal
Date created: [1937] – [1938]
Type of Resource: text
Physical description: p. 92-93
Volume 1103
Note: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Ó Cuinn.
Languages: English eng
Genre: Folktale
Subject: Ringforts linked data (lcsh); Fairy forts--Ráthanna
School location: Ballystrang Ballystrang Conwal Raphoe South Donegal
Location: https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4528418
Location: University College Dublin. National Folklore Collection UCD .
Original reference: 1103/1/40
Suggested credit: "A Fairy Fort"in "The Schools' Manuscript Collection," held by University College Dublin, National Folklore Collection UCD. © University College Dublin. Digital content by: Glenbeigh Records Management, published by UCD Library, University College Dublin <https://doi.org/10.7925/drs1.duchas_4528418>
Note: Collected as part of the Schools' Folklore scheme, 1937-1938, under the supervision of teacher Seosamh Ó Cuinn.
Funding: Supported by funding from the Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht (Ireland), University College Dublin, and the National Folklore Foundation (Fondúireacht Bhéaloideas Éireann), 2014-2016.
Record source: Metadata creation date: 2014/2016 — Metadata created by Fiontar, Dublin City University, in collaboration with the National Folklore Collection UCD and UCD Library. Original Fiontar metadata converted into MODS by UCD Library.