School: Sráid an Mhuilinn (B.) (roll number 14350)
- Location:
- Millstreet, Co. Cork
- Teacher: John Kelleher
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(24) Water Supply
Westropp says that water supply was deliberately excluded from the scheme of fort construction, in his opinion for sanitary reasons. As I have already stated, this is in my belief a lesson learned from the Fulacht Fiadh plague which almost wiped out our Stone Age population. Of course the sanitary reasons would not hold where a fort was not residential but a pagan sanctuary. Thus there is a well within the sacred fort of Cathair Crobh-dearg in the townland of Lios na gCeann in the parish of Cill cummín East only a few miles from us across the Kerry border. But our parish seems to have the unique distinction of having, what was as far as(continues on next page)
