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School: Ráth Ciaragáin (Mount Bolus)

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Rathkeeragan, Co. Offaly
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S. Mac Giolla
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0809, Page 140

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    live near this fort. They used to have a plate of meal on a window which used to be left open every night to let the fairies go in and out. The fairies used to take the meal and after a while they would leave back the meal. Lowertown is about eleven miles south of Tullamore. nearly all the forts are in sight of on another. There is a lot of forts in this parish.
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    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Sadie Doyle
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Killananny, Co. Offaly