School: An Dubh-Chearn (roll number 9534)

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   are lifted up with bars and broken into small pieces with a sledge. Then there is a fire put down in the kiln with turf or colum. Then the stones are thrown in and burned until they come out in lime. This lime is used for building, whitewashing, spraying the potatoes, and for the grass.

   

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   “Long ago there lived on my district beside one of the forts an old man and his wife...”

   

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   Long ago there lived on my district beside one of the forts an old man and his wife. One Winter they were scarce in firing. Every night the man got a block of wood to burn at night. There was a fort in his land. He saw a huge block of wood in the fort and he thought it would do nicely for the fire that night. He

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Brigid Sutherland

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Toome, Co. Leitrim

   Informant

   Michael Sutherland

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Toome, Co. Leitrim