Liosanna /
Fairy Forts
Fairy Forts
Informant: Unknown
Age:
Address: Ballymacart, Co. Waterford
Collector: Michael Ó Floinn, as part of The Schools’ Collection, National Folklore Collection, UCD
Date of Recording: 1937/38
Reference:
Boats in Harbour, Helvic, 1949. [Caoimhín Ó Danachair, National Folklore Collection, UCD]
Liosanna
Tá lios ar thalamh m’athar agus tá díog uisce timpeall air. Ní threabhann siad an lios ar aon chor mar deirtear nuair a threabhann duine lios baineann rud éigin ait dóibh. Tá lios ar thalamh Mícheál ó hAthaire agus thit duine ina chodladh ann aon oíche amháin agus nuair a dhúisigh sé bhí a lán rudaí timpeall air. Bheir sé ar rón agus ina dhiaidh sin níorbh fhéidir le aoinne é a buachaint ag obair le rón.
Fairy Forts
There is a fort on my father’s land and there is a ditch of water around it. They don’t plough the fort at all because it is said that when a person ploughs a fort something strange happens to them. There’s a fort on Mícheál Ó hAthaire’s land and a person fell asleep there one night and when he woke there were many things around him. He laid his hands on a seal and nobody could beat him at working with seals after that.