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School: Clochar Nuala, Dún na nGall (roll number 9389)

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Donegal, Co. Donegal
Teacher:
An tSr. Eanda le Muire
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1034, Page 22

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    On Doonan Rock in the townland of Doonan, about one quarter of a mile from Donegal Town, there is a Fairy Well whose waters have never run dry. This well is supposed to be in Doonan for three hundred years and that time it is said that there was a fairy house close by. The fairies, that lived in that house drew their water from this well. It is surrounded by four small fairy bushes.
    In the townland of Drimrooske, on the land of Mr Joe Brogan, there is rectangular shaped fairy rath which is surrounded by a stone fence. The old people say that between eleven and twelve o'clock at night there was always dancing and
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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
    Mary Fenelon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Donegal, Co. Donegal
    Informant
    Mrs Fenelon
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Donegal, Co. Donegal