School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile (roll number 4572)

Location:
Kinsale, Co. Cork
Teacher:
An tSr. De Pazzi
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0320, Page 124

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  1. XML School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile
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  3. XML “Páiste Shiobhain Cuimín - A Changeling”
  4. XML “A Fairy Lios”

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  2. It is said that there is a Fairy Lios in the Folly. It is shaded by Hurtleberries. It is also said that if you went there three nights in succession to pick the hurts you would be kept there.
    Long ago there lived in Cairrig-Óisin a woman named Norie McCarthy. She went to the Lios three nights one after the other to pick the hurts. When she went there the third night she was kept for three days. When she came out of the Lios the people said she was wiser than ever she was before. She could
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