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School: Rathcarran (roll number 4370)

Location:
Ráth Chairn, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Caitlín Ní Chonnachtáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 349

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0697, Page 349

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  1. Care of Our Farm Animals (continued)

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    The goats have kids and we take off and rear a lamb on the goat. We say Weit; Weit; to the ducks and say yeib; Yeib; to the turkeys. We say Chuc; Chuc; to the hens.
    The geese are hatched in harvest.
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  2. Fairy Forts

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    There are fairy forts about this place. We call these places a lios. There were supposed to be fairies living there some time ago. Some of them (the forts) are round in shape and
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kathleen Murray
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    M. Murray
    Address
    Clonymore, Co. Meath