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School: An Gleann Ruadh, Cill Fhíonáin (roll number 3221)

Location:
Glenroe, Co. Limerick
Teacher:
Mícheál Mac Conmidhe
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0511, Page 166

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  1. A Football Match

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    There is a lios near my house in the farm of Edmond Condon of Rapala. There is a narrow field long side it and it is said that some years ago five or six men were watching the finest football match they had ever seen between the fairies.
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    1. activities
      1. social activities (~7)
        1. entertainments and recreational activities (~5,933)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
        1. Biddy Early (~186)
    Language
    English
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    David Meade
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  2. Cúinne Dubh

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    There is a lios in the farm of Jack Hennessy which is called the "cúinne dubh" There used a black pig appear there and he used to walk around the lios It is also called the vally of the black pig. Some time ago it is said that Biddy Early stopped there for some days coming from Clare to Castle Gale on the borders of Cork and Limerick.
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