School: Sráid (C.) (roll number 14370)
- Location:
- Strade, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Bean Uí Liodáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0124, Page 131
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- Long ago the people used to dig up the forts and they used to get money in some of them. During the time of the famine when the people had nothing to eat and when they used to die they used to be buried in the forts. Some of the
Black and Tans used to spy on each other in the forts they were very useful at that time long ago the old people used to hear a lot of stories about forts. This is one. Long ago there lived two widows and they were very poor they had no house, so they built themselves one in the dogac of an old fort. One(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary Mulroy
- Gender
- Female
