School: Coolderry
- Location:
- Coolderry, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: L. Mac Conriada
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- Fairy fort
There is two fairy forts in the land of general Lloyd Gloster there they are very near my house there is a very old woman lives near it all her life time Miss Mary Carroll Ballatty and she told me that one night when she was young she went into the fort to pick nuts it was as dark as pitch outside the fort and as bright as the noon day inside she also heard mysterious music. In it there is a secret passage going from one fort to the other the forts are circular in shape.
An old monastery
There is the ruins of a monastery on the land of Dan Lucknane it goes by the name of the blackvilla a small river runs by its walls and its called the blackwater it is a tribruity of the little Brosna every christmas eve at midnight bells are heard in his house. a small path was(continues on next page)
