School: Coolavin (roll number 10422)
- Location:
- Mainistir Réadáin, Co. Shligigh
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Braonáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0188, Page 230
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- (continued from previous page)It is true that a man of the name Terence Mac Dermot interfered with this fort by cutting one of the trees which was growing beside the entrance and he died on the anniversary of the day.
During the Xmas season people say that the fairies are heard churning. They say that by doing this they help to provide food for the Infant Jesus.
There is a spring well beside this fort and its waters are never used for tea because old people tell us that this water would never boil.
- Collector
- Teresa Kilrehal
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An tSrúibh, Co. Shligigh
