School: Slane (C.) (roll number 4852)

Location:
Slane, Co. Meath
Teacher:
Josephine Cooney
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0713, Page 275

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    queer stories when you come home because some years ago there were different stories on the round about this fort. One night a certain man happened to be coming home from work and he crossed this field that it is in. He was hurrying home when he heard some music and he stopped and he heard none and when he started the music would start too any way he plodded along in the direction in which the music came. At last he reached the fort and then he saw a light on the side of it. He was no way nervous so he ventured up to see what it was and then he saw that the light was coming out of a doorway which was on it. He ventured in a long hallway into a terrible big room. This room was crowded with
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Kitty Doherty
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gernonstown, Co. Meath