School: Dairbhre, (C.) Clanna Caoilte (roll number 13126)
- Location:
- Darrary, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Onóir Ní Riagáin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0318, Page 044
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Dairbhre, (C.) Clanna Caoilte
- XML Page 044
- XML “Forts”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- About a 1/4 mile to the north-east of Clonakilty is "Tawnies Fort".
Once, a farmer who owned the land thought of knocking down the fort & leveling field to plant oats. One day, with two horses he started work on one part of the fort.
Next morning when he went out to the stables to give something to eat to the horses, he found both of them lying dead. His cattle and crops failed and he had to leave the place soon after. The place where he worked can still be seen as it makes a passage into the fort.
Some years later a woman near the place sent her sons to draw the stones from the fort to build a house. When the house was built she could' nt sleep in it as it was full of strange noises - she had to leave the place. The house remained idle for many years. At last a man(continues on next page)
