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School: Willistown, Dunleer (roll number 7597)

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Willistown, Co. Louth
Teacher:
M. Ó Liatháin
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  1. Lore of Certain Days

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. belief (~391)
        1. folk belief (~2,535)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
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  2. Fairy Forts

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    Lios-na-Rann in the townland of Lynns beside Annagassan on the left bank of the Dee. It is an old Danish Fort.
    The ground is rough: some black thorn bushes are growing on it. There is no entrance hole.

    There is a mound, circular in shape, in the townland of Adamstown in the land of Mr Matthew Clinton. There are trees growing on it. There is no entrance hole.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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