Fairies and Raths and the Dead (Co. Roscommon)

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After the mother had testified, the daughter [who lived in Ratra, Roscommon], who is quite of the younger generation, gave her own opinion. She said that the ‘good people’ live in the forts and often take men and women or youths who pass by the forts after sunset; that Mr. Gilleran, who died not long ago, once saw certain dead friends and recognized among them those who were believed to have been taken and those who died naturally, and that he saw them again when he was on his death-bed. Evans-Wentz (from whom this account is taken) adds: We have here, as in so many other accounts, a clear connexion between the realm of the dead and Fairyland. Evans-Wentz 72

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