School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceannanus Mór
- Location:
- Kells, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Máthais Íde
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- The old people say that it is not lucky to pull flowers that grow in a fort for they belong to the fairies. A fort should never be ploughed A man who ploughed a fort on his land got a paralytic stroke. Some called the forts Danish forts.
In Maperath is a hollow called "the valley of the black pig."
There was schoolmaster there once who had a book on black magic. He turned one of his pupils, a boy into a black pig. Then the black pig went round and rooted up the earth. Since then the hollow is called "The valley of the black pig.- Collector
- Maureen Reilly
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13