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School: Cluainte (roll number 12404)

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Cloontia, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Máire Ní Riagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0117, Page 15

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    “I have hear of a man who tilled a fort...”

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    John MacGeever's fort in Tavnaghbeg has a stone wall around it and the graves of unbaptised children are inside the wall. It is said that music and churning have been heard in it. It is said that every May Night the fairies are changed from one fort to another and that they have been heard shouting and cheering. When the people till the fields in which the forts are they never interfere with the forts.
    I have heard of a man who tilled a fort about sixty years ago but before doing so he went one evening after sunset and turned over a sod and asked the "good people" if they did not wish to be disturbed to turn it back again before morning. It was as he left it in the morning and he took it as a sign that they were quite satisfied to have the fort tilled and he went on with his crop.
    Peadar Carney Dernabrock West, Cloontia
    Peadar Carney got the information from his grandmother who is over 80 years.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    “There was a grave made in Tavnghabeg...”

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    There was a grave made in Tavnghabeg fort and no one ever saw the people who put the coffin in it.
    The 'Caoineadh' was heard in Tavnghabeg fort.
    In the middle of the fort there is a hole which the people call a cave.
    Annie J. Finn,Tavnghabeg, Cloontia
    Annie J. Finn got the information from Celia O'Hara
    Annaghin, Gurteen, Co. Sligo.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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    Language
    English
    Collector
    Annie J. Finn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Tawnaghbeg, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    Celia O' Hara
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Gorteen, Co. Sligo

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    “Caltaragh has a ring of bushes...”

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    Caltaragh has a ring of bushes all round it and the centre is covered with shrubbery. It is said that the Volunteers buried some Black and Tans in Caltaragh
    Teresa Macgeever, Slievemore, Cloontia.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
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