School: Clochar na Trócaire, Meathas Truim (roll number 13313)

Location:
Edgeworthstown, Co. Longford
Teacher:
An tSiúr Bernard
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    Not far from where I live there is a fort or fairy-swing...

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  2. Once upon a time there was a soldier's bush in Goshen and no matter how often a person cut it down it would grown up again. On one occasion a man cut it down and one night he was in bed the fairies came to the house and they brought him out and turned him into a key. The reason its called a soldiers bush is because long ago there were soldiers killed and buried there. On another occasion a man cut it down because he did not want it in his field. The next morning when he got up all his horses were dead were the soldiers bush
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