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School: Rosmead (roll number 7212)

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Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
Teacher:
E. Lynch
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0726, Page 069

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    in the fort but lights have been seen in the fields around it. There is a man living beside it and he used to leave tobacco in the fort for the fairies and he thought it was they that took it but it was his workman.
    Once a man took a branch of one of the trees in it and put it in the fire but it would not burn.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Rosie Hogg
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Crowinstown Great, Co. Westmeath
    Informant
    James Hogg
    Relation
    Parent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Crowinstown Great, Co. Westmeath