School: Killeen, Granard (roll number 13752)

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1. Fairy Forts (continued)

   

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   and there were often lights seen in the forts at night.
   The owners of these forts do not interfere with the bushes of the forts because a man was cutting bushes in his fort to bush a gap and a bush slapped back and cut the eye out of him and he had to get it out.
   My father told me all this information and he is years.
   May Fagan Leitrim, Mostrim.

   

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2. Local Poets

   

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   440 Local Poets Joseph Donnelly of Carra was a great poet and he was born in Carra. He died at the age of 72 and he was buried in Carra. He made poems about "Lough Sheelin", "Pat O'Farrell", "The Moat of Granard", "The rebellion of 98" and of other things. He made the poem about the moat of Granard after playing pipes at a sports in Granard. He made a poem about Lough

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   Topics

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

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Michael Cunningham

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Tonywardan, Co. Longford

   Informant

   James Kearney

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   40