School: Gleann an Chairthe (roll number 13345)
- Location:
- Glencar, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Seán Mag Ualghairg
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- (continued from previous page)and see the sticks. Ya needn't mind. They were never sick or sore in their life.
- There is a fairy fort on the hill just above my house. Neighbours say there are lights seen in it even to this day. I never saw any. They are almost invariably there on sight of each other. Just a mound or circular bank of earth. Some have bushes growing in them. No one cuts the bushes. No one tills the land. This is the fairy's play ground.
- Many died from bowel complaint caused by eating chicken weed.
- There is a hilly old road in the district known as the road from Derry to Dublin.
- Collector
- Margaret Mary Gilligan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Fenagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Thomas Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Drumdillure, Co. Leitrim