School: Cill Srianáin (Jamestown) (roll number 1024)

Location:
Jamestown, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Bríd Ní Ghormáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0210, Page 375

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    I am not acquainted with the forts of this (Jamestown) district but I will describe a chain of forts in the Liss

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    improve the appearance of his field. The man he employed to do it was dead within the year while he himself was found dead, the next Holy Thursday with his throat cut by his own hand.
    Elsewhere in this book an account is given of an old woman and man whose house was burned on Xmas eve.
    They too had offended the "little people" - they cut bushes in the fort beside their cottage, the previous Summer.
    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
    Mary Gorman
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Mrs Hunt
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Jamestown, Co. Leitrim