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School: Swords (B.) (roll number 755)

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Swords, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
A. Hamill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0789, Page 126

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    There are many fairy forts in this district. There is one in broadmeadow. It is a lone tree in the centre of a field. The tree is not very tall and right up through the centre of it there is a hole in which the fairies live. Once there was a boy named Joseph McGuire was crossing the field. Before he came to the tree he saw a fairy and when he moved the fairy disappeared. The Celts are supposed to have made this hole in the tree to hide their jewellery when the "Danes" came to plunder.
    The farmer whose field the tree is on never interferes with the tree or he never ploughs the field.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Joseph O Rourke
    Gender
    Male
    Informant
    Bernard O Rourke
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    52