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School: Birr (St. Brendan's)

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Birr or Parsonstown, Co. Offaly
Teachers:
S. Ó Conchobhair R. Ó Huigín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0821, Page 062

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    Fairy Forts
    There is a fort known as Kelly's situated on the eastern slops of Cloghan hill on the lands of Peter Kelly, Stonestown, Cloghan, Offaly. It is facing the rising sun. There is another fort about half a mile S.W. of it on the lands of Mrs. James Doorly, Stonestown, Cloghan, Offaly.
    There is a road connecting the two forts. Kelly's fort is circular in shape. There is an earthen ditch around it. The entrance is in the east, about five yards to the left of the entrance there is a stone stranding upright and people say that it marks the entrance to a tunnel.
    There is a similar stone in the centre of the other fort and there must be some connection between the two forts.
    Doorly's fort is a sort
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    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Collector
    Patrick Muhare
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Cloghan, Co. Offaly
    Informant
    Peter Devery
    Gender
    Male
    Address
    Clonlyon Castlequarter, Co. Offaly