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School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile (roll number 4572)

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Cionn tSáile, Co. Chorcaí
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An tSr. De Pazzi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 045

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 045

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  1. The Fairies (continued)

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    there is a field called the "Leawaca" where numbers of fairy pipes were found. A fairy pipe is scarcely as big as your small finger, the bowl of the pipe is not as big as a thimble. Fairy Potatoes were also found there, they were as large as a gooseberry, and usually about three were found under one stalk and that stalk was very hard to pull the Leawaca was never tilled until recently.
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  2. The Burial Place of St Eltin

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    On the slope of the hill of Mellifontstown three miles from Kinsale is an enclosure called the Seana Cill the site of an ancient church and graveyard. The local residents believe that there rest the remains of St Eltin patron of Kinsale. They say that the body of St Eltin was buried in the
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    Topics
    1. earraí
      1. struchtúir de dhéantús an duine
        1. séadchomharthaí (~6,794)
    2. ócáidí
      1. ócáidí (de réir trátha bliana) (~11,476)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Maighread Ní Croínín
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Séamus Breathnach
    Gender
    Male