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School: Dromakeenan

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Drumakeenan, Co. Offaly
Teacher:
C. Ní Fhallamhain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 115

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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0818, Page 115

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    “A man caught a lepreachan one time and he asked him for his gold.”

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    A man caught a lepreachan one time and he asked him for his gold. And the lepreachan told him to go to a certain field where there was one daffodil growing there and under that you will get my gold the next morning he went to the field but when he went to the field it was covered with daffodils and he could not find the daffodil that the gold was under.
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    “There was a man one time who lived in Locheen and he did not like forts so he started to cut all the trees round the forts onhis land and his cattle died, and he could not live in the house atall and he tried o sell it but no one ever bought it, so it fel”

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    There was a man one time who lived in Locheen and he did not like forts so he started to cut all the trees round the forts on his land and his cattle died, and he could not live in the house atall and he tried to sell it but no one ever bought it, so it fell down and people say to this day that it is haunted.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    2. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Peggy O' Meara
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Peg Gleeson
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    13

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    “A little boy was swimming in a lake and he was drowned and if you go to that lake, that night you will dream about him and you will also see the boy getting drowned with bubbles coming out of is mouth.”

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    A little boy was swimming in a lake and he was drowned and if you go to that lake, that night you will dream
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