School: Kilmacoo, Avoca
- Location:
- Kilmacoo, Co. Wicklow
- Teacher: Bean Uí Chosgair
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- Once upon a time a farmer & his wife were living near a fairy fort. The had one child: a little girl about a year old who was always laughing & merry.The fort was about two hundred yards from their house, on the top of a hill & it was know as Lis-Leitrim. One fine evening in the month of May the farmer's wife went up to the fort to look for a turkey's nest she brought her child with her & left it down at the edge of the fort while she searched around the bushes for the nest. after about 10 or 15 mins. she came back & found the child crying bitterly but what surprised her most it had changed its appearance. She brought it home & put it in its cot but it still kept crying. The days & the weeks & the months passed but still no change, it kept crying away night & day. The poor people were heart broken & worn out with it & they asked the advice of doctors & wise(continues on next page)
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- Brigid Macken
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