School: Castleblayney (2) (roll number 10649)

Location:
Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
Teacher:
William Boyd
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0943, Page 419

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  1. There are two Fairy Forts near my grandmother's home in Dunmaurice, Ballybeg.
    The names of the forts are Dunmaurice fort and McBirney's.
    The former is called that name because it is in the townland of Dunmaurice. The other fort is called McBirney's fort because people named McBirney's lived there. They are all circular in shape.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Ray Beattie
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Castleblayney, Co. Monaghan
  2. In my district there lived a man named Jim McMahon. This man was able to make poems. This gift of poetry was handed down from generation to generation. The most of his poems were about his district and about his friends.
    These are the names of some of this poems. "The land where the Dafodils grow", "The girl of the
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