School: Killorglin (C.) (roll number 12833)

Location:
Killorglin, Co. Kerry
Teacher:
Úna Nic Choluim
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0435, Page 251

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  1. Long ago a piper lived in Killorglin there was a stone near where he lived and every day the piper played sitting on the stone but one day a fairy playing a pipe sat in the place and when the piper heard the fairy playing he began himself and no sooner had he finished when he dropped dead and ever since it is called "The Piper's Stone."
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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    2. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
        1. the great famine (~4,013)
    3. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Siobhán Ní Loinghsigh
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killorglin, Co. Kerry