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   to do any harm we came here". So Harry began to reap, and he reaped a good deal quicker than ever he reaped. It was not long until it was all reaped, and when he was cutting the last sheaf, all the men went up to the fort with their hooks on their shoulders.

   

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2. Stories Connected with Forts

   

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   XVIII There is a fort in Drumora, and there are many strange stories told about it. One night there was a girl coming from a dance across the fort, her name was Brigid Smith from Crosserlough, that night she did not return home. She was missing for a week. Every neighbour was serching for her. At the end of a week, there came a strange old man to her home and told her parents to get six strong men and to go to the fort that night before twelve o clock. There was two enterances to the fort. The old man said that there would comehorse-men through

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary Kerr

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Drumroragh, Co. Cavan