School: Carrickgorman
- Location:
- Carrickgorman, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Fleming
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1006, Page 006
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: Carrickgorman
- XML Page 006
- XML “Composition - Hidden Treasure”
- XML “Composition - Hidden Treasure”
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
- (continued from previous page)There is a stone at one side of the ditch and the track of a little foot three inches in length there.
It is said that it is a path that fairies go every night from the lone bush to guard the fort, other ornaments have been found around the house of Mr Mahood.
- There is a fort on my father's farm which has never been removed: my grandfather was told not to interfere with it, he was told a penalty was put upon him not to labour it except he would plant two hundred trees, - one hundred loan bushes, fifty ash bushes, fifty furze bushes and not to let the furze(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Drumacarrow, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr Philip Carroll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Address
- Drumacarrow, Co. Cavan
