School: An Léim Gearr (roll number 8766)
- Location:
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: P. Duffy
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0936, Page 365
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- 1. On the farm of Peter McMahon, Lisdungormal there is a fairy fort. Peter once ploughed a field beside the fort. Next morning four or five scores had been turned into position again - this was the pad of the fairies.
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- Collector
- John Murray
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Lemgare, Co. Monaghan
- 3. There is a fort on Johnny Carragher's farm in Cremartin. A man whom Johnny had working beside the fort found a lovely violin under the ground.
- 4. There is a fairy fort on Lismagunshion hill. A woman named Mary Branigan (Mary John) who lived there and is dead about twenty years used say that she often passed it when she was a little girl. The fairies used be gathered near a little fire(continues on next page)
