School: Castletowngeoghegan (B.) (roll number 2092)

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1. Fairy Forts (continued)

   

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   one of the bushes. He took the log off the cow and pitched it up on the bush so that he would know where to get the gold when he came back from the field. When he came back from the field all the bushes of the fort were covered logs and the gold had disappeared.
   In John Reids

   field of Kippenduff there was a fairy fort. John cut the fort away. He had bad luck for one year after that. All his cattle and sheep died.

   

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2. Local Poets

   

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   There were not many poets around this part of the country long ago but one was named Matthew Daly Weir. Matthew Weir was born in the year 1852. He never went to school and when the children would be coming home from school, he would be waiting for them at Kelly's corner. He would ask them what lessons they had in school and he would learn them at home himself. He taught school in Ballinagore and later became a Proffessor in Clongoswood College. He became a B.L. in the year 1886 and died in 1891. He is buried in the old churchyard, Castletown.

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   Topics

   1. genre
      1. poetry
         1. folk poetry (~9,504)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   J. Ennis

   Informant

   John Daly

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Castletown Geoghegan, Co. Westmeath