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School: Dearg Dún (roll number 10894)

Location:
Dergvone, Co. Leitrim
Teacher:
Máire Ní Lochlainn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0205, Page 005

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    Not far from our school three forts are to be found. One is in the townland of Dargoon, another in Coolagrain, and one in Aughrim. Two of them are situated on a hill and one in a hollow. There is a distance of about two hundred yards between them so that one of them is built within sight of another. A wall or ditch of clay is built around them in circular shape. The fairies enter them by a gap or doorway in the wall.
    Music was sometimes heard in those places by men who were passing by at a late hour. In the night this music was heard and never in the day time, but the people who heard it got afraid and ran off.
    Long ago the people say these
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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
    Michael J. Gilmartin
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Dergvone, Co. Leitrim
    Informant
    Pat Hearte
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    80
    Address
    Dergvone, Co. Leitrim