School: Cortown (roll number 3113)
- Location:
- Cortown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Peadar Mac Gabhann
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- There is a fairy fort in a field called Crock Mulk in Charlesfort. People after saw fairies when they were coming from a neighbour's house. The fairies were on horseback and you could hear them a long distance away. One time a man had to open the gate for them and let them pass by. Mrs. Finegan of Navan was living in Mrs Teeling's house in the Randilagh (or Ranelogh). One night she went out to the haggard and she heaerd shocking laughing. She thought she heard a lot of people in the house. When she returned to the house there was no one there. It was the fairies. It is said that this house is built on a "fairy pass". The pass goes right under the place where the hearthstone is.
