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School: Carrowreagh (roll number 15220)

Location:
Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo
Teacher:
Elizabeth Benson
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0185, Page 0036

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  1. A Fairy Tale

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    About twenty years ago one day as he was spraying his potatoes in a field adjoining a fort he saw a fort. At about twelve o'clock in the day when he was filling the spraying machine at the barrel just on top of the mould of fort he saw a little boy about seven years of age standing on it He wore a blue little knee-breeches and a red little coat and high white button bots and a black cap similar to a bus conductor's cap.
    He looked at him very sharply. Peter went over to him but to get to him he had to go down in a trench to get up on the ditch but he never saw him again.
    Another time he went to a market in Tubercurry. The season
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Margaret Alice Grey
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowreagh, Co. Sligo