Excerpts from an interview with Michael Moynihan about the belief in fairy forts. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.
Description
Excerpt 1: About two connected forts in Ballingeary, one sold to the county council by the landowner.
Excerpt 2: How a man and his wife died after the fort they sold to the council was knocked down.
Excerpt 3: Connections with Mythology and how the tuath de Dannan built the forts.
Excerpt 4: Narrative about gold found under a stone in a circle and gorse thrown over it. The gold disappears.
Excerpt 5: Ancient church as an unbaptised children burial ground between two forts.
Excerpt 6: Narrative about Sullivan Bearra last camping ground in Tempallin Eachrais sacred ground bearing him no luck.
Excerpt 7: Story about dancing with the fairies, paying the piper, only to find five pennies on top of a flat stone the next day.
Excerpt 8: Story about fairy fort gates that wouldn't close and how the man who knocked down the pillars died shortly after.
Excerpt 9: Story about a woman who returns as a ghost from America and wants her cloak paid for in the shop in Macroom.
Excerpt 2: How a man and his wife died after the fort they sold to the council was knocked down.
Excerpt 3: Connections with Mythology and how the tuath de Dannan built the forts.
Excerpt 4: Narrative about gold found under a stone in a circle and gorse thrown over it. The gold disappears.
Excerpt 5: Ancient church as an unbaptised children burial ground between two forts.
Excerpt 6: Narrative about Sullivan Bearra last camping ground in Tempallin Eachrais sacred ground bearing him no luck.
Excerpt 7: Story about dancing with the fairies, paying the piper, only to find five pennies on top of a flat stone the next day.
Excerpt 8: Story about fairy fort gates that wouldn't close and how the man who knocked down the pillars died shortly after.
Excerpt 9: Story about a woman who returns as a ghost from America and wants her cloak paid for in the shop in Macroom.
Date
1986
Citation
“Excerpts from an interview with Michael Moynihan about the belief in fairy forts. For this interview's catalogue entry click here.,” UCCFEA, accessed April 28, 2024, http://epu.ucc.ie/folklore/items/show/451.