School: Castlepollard (C.) (roll number 5514)
- Location:
- Castlepollard, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Mrs Egan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0721, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)around the fire in the Winter nights.
The following is another old story which is told locally. There was a man living in Fore a long time ago. One fine day he went out into a field in which there was a fairy fort. He lay down on he grass and he fell asleep. He slept for a few hours and when he woke up there was a book lying on one side of him and a fiddle and a bow on the other side. He lifted the book up in his hand. No sooner had he it lifted than he lost his right eye. Then he became a great poet he could read and write and every thing. Before he went into the field he was a illiterate he could neither read or anything. Some years afterward he died and was buried in Fore. This is another story which(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Bernadette Smyth
- Gender
- Female
