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School: Grange (roll number 3759)

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Grange, Co. Sligo
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Tomás de Búrca
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0155, Page 168

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    One evening a man came to see the road. He asked the men why they were not making the road straight through the fort. The foreman over the (fort) men said that they would have nothing to do with it and that if they (would) were compelled to make the road through the fort they would stop working. This foreman said that he heard a piper playing the most beautiful music he ever heard in the fort.
    There is also a fort in Moores' land in Newtown, Grange, there were lights also seen going round through this fort (also) often.
    There was also a piper seen and heard playing in Benbulben fort when Benbulben school was being planned
    Nobody ever went down into these forts.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Kilfeather
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Grange, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    Mrs O Connor
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    74
    Address
    Grange, Co. Sligo