School: Ardlow

Location:: Ardlow, Co. Cavan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1004, Page 024

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Dean Swift used to come to Quilca to spend the Summer months there, and at the approach of Winter he would return to Dublin One particular Winter while he was in Dublin, Richard Brinsley Sheridan built an island in Quilca Lake, by bringing clay, and mud, and stones out in boats to a shallow place in the middle of the lake. The following Summer the Dean returned as usual, and Richard Brinsley Sheridan told him that the island was there one morning when he went out and that it must have been the fairies that built it. Dean Swift was ever afterwards afraid to go out near that part of the lake as he believed the island was enchanted.
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Topics
1. agents (~1)
  historical persons (~5,068)
  Dean Swift (~11)
Language

English
Collector
Bridget T. Traynor
Gender

Female
Address

Raffony, Co. Cavan

Informant
Thomas Traynor
Gender

Male
Age

c. 70
Address

Raffony, Co. Cavan

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