School: Glascorn (roll number 16615)
- Location:
- Glascarn, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Hope
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0736, Page 168
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- (continued from previous page)of music were also heard coming from them.
In Fieldtown, about one mile to the south of Glascorn School, there is a fort opposite which there is a gap in an earthen ditch, No matter how well this gap is fenced at night it is wide open next morning and the bushes are left to one side. The old people call this "the fairies" passway." These forts are never interfered with when the land is being ploughed or tilled.
- There is a fairy fort in Coolnahay about two miles north of Glascorn School, An underground passage connects it with a fort in Balgaret and another connects it with a fort in Ballegan. There is an entrance hole in the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary J. Keefe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Informant
- Patrick Keefe
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Address
- Coolnahay, Co. Westmeath
