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School: Gleann Doire (C.) (roll number 10404)

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Glenderry, Co. Kerry
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Cáit Bean Uí Gléathabhúir
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    except that it was used by the smugglers in the fourteenth century for storing tobacco which was seized by robbers from merchant ships conveying it from the different countries where tobacco was grown to any of the Irish poets.
    In more recent times during the civil war in this country it was used as a hiding place by the Insurgents. It was also used as a prison for anyone who did not obey the laws of the old I.R.A. organisation.
    It is of Danish
    (continues on next page)
    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
    Mary Flahive
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Glenderry, Co. Kerry