School: Castletown
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Meath
- Teacher: Owen Maguire
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is a fort in Mr Brown's land in Knock. The name of this fort is Crocaceanny. There is a path across the top of this hill. The people believe it was made by the fairies. A man is supposed to have been coming from a house after playing cards. He went across the fort and he had the cards in his pocket. As he was going across the fort he heard doors close and light shone on him. He saw a number of fairies marching around this hill. The played music and danced around him for a long time and then let him go. The man then went astray on top of the fort. He threw the cards out of his pocket and he got home safe. He came next day to look for the cards but he could not find them.
- There is a fort in Knock called the Round O. There are a number of trees growing in the middle of it with a hedge growing round it. There is supposed to be gold and money hid in it. It is said that it was a witch put it there. She used to go round and steal money and after the witch died the fairies(continues on next page)
