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School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)

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Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 407

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    Topics
    1. activities
      1. economic activities
        1. agriculture (~2,659)
    2. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    3. objects
      1. man-made structures
        1. buildings
          1. residential buildings (~2,723)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Mary Beattie
    Gender
    Female
    Informant
    Percy Clarke
    Relation
    Grandparent
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    70
    Address
    Gortinar, Co. Leitrim

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    He himself built a byre a short distance away from his house. One evening he tied his seven cows in the byre and came home. He was not long in his house. When the seven cows came roaring after him with the spanchels round their nooks. She tried to drive them back into the byre, but every time they broke back on him. He then got his neighbours to help him but it was all in vain at last they discovered that the byre was built on a fairy fort so he made a wooden shed for the cows, till he got time to build a proper byre.
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