School: Kellystown, Dunleer (roll number 3154)
- Location:
- Kellystown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chathail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0674, Page 141
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“Piperstown got its name from the pipers and fiddlers who liver near.”
(continued from previous page)play football in Galroostown bottoms and they used to take a man named Denis Mac Keown (now dead) to play with them.
Francis Mac Quillan (now dead) is supposed to have seen a liprecann mending a shoe. He was about to catch hold of him when a stone falling of the wall nearby arrested his attention and when he looked again the fairy was gone. Also a little woman was supposed to sleep under a thorn in Brannaganstown lane. A fairy train was supposed to go up and down the "Great Northern" line on certain nights.
Unpublished Song
“As I was going to ennisgasson by chance I met the fairy train”
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