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School: Bog-fhód (Buckode) (roll number 3736)

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Buckode, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Muiris Mac Gearailt
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0191, Page 114

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    (continued from previous page)
    and as the people passed by the pairies kept on dancing and playing. One night as Hugh Clancy, Gurteendarragh, Kinlough, Co. Leitrim was attending a sick beast in a lyre near the fort he saw several men digging with spades in the field. When it cleared next morning Hugh Clancy went out to his own field to see what the crowd of men had done but instead of it being dug up there was not a sad turned.
    One night in Terence Connoly, Gurteendarragh, Kinlough, Co. Leitrim, was going to bed he went out to the byre to look at his cattle. The byre was
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    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
    Bernard Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Aghaderrard West, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Daniel Mc Gowan
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    72
    Address
    Gorteendarragh, Co. Leitrim