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1. Antiquities in Derryereha School District

   

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   In Tim Regan's farm in Ardnatrush there is a Cromlech This consists of one large stone resting on two other stones standing on end on the ground. There is no local name for this monument.
   In the townland of Ardnatrush there is a blessed well known as Lady's Well. Local tradition says that the Blessed Virgin was seen at that well years ago. People used to pay rounds there on the fifteenth of August every year. But that practice has died out during the last twenty years. That townland got its name from the rounds that used to be made at the well.
   In Ardnatrush there is also a circular dún or fort. This is situated on the brink of a cliff overhanging the sea. The old name for the fort has been lost.
   About a hundred yards from the fort are the ruins of a large, oblong, stone building. It is about thirty feet long and fifteen broad and the walls that remain are about twelve feet in height. Tradition says that it was being built by fairies when a man going out for a cow to drive her to the fair interrupted them. The man was struck sick went home and died shortly afterwards, and the house was never finished.
   At the water's edge in Reemeen there was a glass bottle factory. Only very little of the walls remain but many lumps of dark

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   History Edit

   Language

   English

   Informant

   Mrs O Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Ardaturrish Beg, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Patrick O Shea

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   72

   Address

   Glengarriff, Co. Cork