School: Allenwood, Robertstown (roll number 1712)

Location:
Allenwood, Co. Kildare
Teacher:
Seán Ó Clúmháin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0775, Page 013

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    Topics
    1. genre
      1. verbal arts (~1,483)
        1. riddles (~7,209)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Doyle
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    11
    Informant
    Mr Nugent
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Ballyteige South, Co. Kildare
  2. A man named Jim McCann from Drimsree (Rathangan) Co. Kildare was coming home from a fair one very bright night. He had a sheep dog with him. When he was going by Thornton's rath a crowd of little men came out of it and walked along with him. They were so thick around him that he could hardly keep from walking on them
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