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School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile

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  1. A True Story (continued)

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    with great difficulty got his horse and car on firm ground. The wonderful part of the story is how he got into the bog. The wheel tracks showed that the passed three padlocked gates and also a small door in Markree demesne wall. In the ordinary way a horse could not pass through the door-way. The surprising part is; Jarvey, horse and car escaped uninjured and was nothing the worse of the exciting experience.
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  2. A True Story

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    Once upon a time a man name Patrick Coen who lived in Lisconny, Parish of Riverstown, Co. Sligo, decided to build a new house. The place where he intended to build it was near a fort in Cooperhill, barony of parish of Co. Sligo. On a certain day he started building it, facing the front of the house towards the fort. When night came, he stopped the work, but much to his surprise, when he arose in the morning his building had been thrown. He started the work again and continued during the day.
    When night came he again stopped the work. Next morning he again found the house thrown. Amazed at this mysterious work he went to the parish pries. The priest explained to him that it was the fairies that were doing the mischief. Then he went home satisfied and build the house facing the gable towards the fort and from that day until he died he lived comfortably in the house.
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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. jokes (~6,086)
    2. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Josephine Meredith
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Cloonamahan, Co. Sligo
    Informant
    James Meredith
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    56

  3. A True Story

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    About sixty years ago The Most Rev. Dr. Durcan Bishop of Achonry was visiting a man named Cogan
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