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School: Skerries (St. Patrick's : Boys) (roll number 16332)

Location:
Skerries, Co. Dublin
Teacher:
T. Mc Namee
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0785, Page 103

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    A Story about the Fairies
    (Skerries, Co. Dublin)
    At a place called Killa Lane a short way from the village of the Man O War there are Fairy Stones. Many hundreds of years ago it is said that the fairies help a contest among themselves to decide which was to be the king. But every year an old clever fairy won the kingship from the Twelve Pins. The other fairies got fairly fed up with this and decided to settle him. So they got their cfief [?] engineer
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    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Collector
    John Fox
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Strand Street, Co. Dublin