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School: Killuran / Cill Úráin (roll number 14658)

Location:
Killuran, Co. Clare
Teacher:
Thomas Mc Inerney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0588C, Page 18_014

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    There are not many forths in our farm. There is one very high forth in it, however. Fairies are supposed to live in these forths. Nobody does any harm to those forths. There was once a man and he said he was not afraid of fairies. So he went to the forth and began to cut trees. After a while he heard some music. He knew it was the fairies. The man ran away with fear. The man went back again next day and he was not long there when he heard the
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    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    James Mc Namara
    Gender
    Male