School: Turloch (roll number 10286)
- Location:
- Turlough, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Éamonn Ó Maolmhuaidh
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- There are two forts in Rockfield. There is one in Joyces field. It is of square shape. I was in it once. There are two openings in it for windows. It leads to Browns field.
There is one in Brown's field also. It is of a round shape,. It was tilled once for potatoes, but they had to let it out again. When they were digging the potatoes they were haunted. I was in it a few times. There is a well in it, and the tracks of windows. It is very dark inside. There are the tracks of doors also in it.
They are called forts or raths because the fairies live in them. There were some wild animals seen around Brown's fort.
Long ago in the time of war the Danes made these as a place of safity. They are very well built,. The reason they had the well inside was because they were afraid of their enemies to come out of the fort, So they made up their(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Sara Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonkesh, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Dunne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 77
- Address
- Cloonkesh, Co. Mayo
