School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór

Location:
Kells, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Máthais Íde
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  1. The old people say that it is not lucky to pull flowers that grow in a fort for they belong to the fairies. A fort should never be ploughed A man who ploughed a fort on his land got a paralytic stroke. Some called the forts Danish forts.
    In Maperath is a hollow called "the valley of the black pig."
    There was schoolmaster there once who had a book on black magic. He turned one of his pupils, a boy into a black pig. Then the black pig went round and rooted up the earth. Since then the hollow is called "The valley of the black pig.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. genre
      1. poetry
        1. folk poetry (~9,504)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. historical persons (~5,068)
    3. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maureen Reilly
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13