School: Ardkeenan

Location:
Ardkeenan, Co. Roscommon
Teacher:
John Meares
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0270, Page 298

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    every one in the neighbourhood heard it, they all seemed to hear it in different places. I was during the time that a great many children were sick with a disease named the measels. All the parents of the children thought that some one belonging to them would die.
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  2. The people of the towns-land of Ardkeenan heard the fairies working with spades and shovels on the railway at a place called the cutting. On the same night the people heard the fairies singing at a place named the Lissin.
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    Topics
    1. agents (~1)
      1. supernatural and legendary beings (~14,864)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Paddy Hannon
    Gender
    Male