School: Log na nGall (roll number 15663)
- Location:
- Lugnagall, Co. Sligo
- Teachers: Tomás Ó Hodhráin Bean Uí Hodhráin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0157, Page 141
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- There is a fort in the townland of Collingsford. It is called a fort and it is in view of many other forts.There is a fence of bushes round the fort One one side of it there is an entrance. There is a story about a man who cut a bush in the fort. One day, long ago, a man was cutting fire-wood, and he cut a white-thorn bush in the fort.Every place he went to that day he saw a crowd of fairies dancing.It is not known who built the fort.The Danes were connected with them.
- Collector
- Nora Harte
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Collinsford, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs Henegan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 72
- Address
- Collinsford, Co. Sligo
