School: Ceathrú Mhór (roll number 16289)
- Location:
- Carrowmore, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Thomas F. O' Hara
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0126, Page 271
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- (continued from previous page)yards wide. It is almost covered with bushes except a small portion. In the middle of the fort there is a gate covered with stones.
There is another fort in Patrick Mottise's field and it is believed that a man left that fort with a light almost every night and went to another fort about two o'clock in the night. My father saw it coming towards him and he waited till it a came near him and he saw nothing but a man.
In Pat Mulloy's field there is a large fort about twenty five yards wide. When he went to dig away a portion of it he found bones of a person and after a time he stopped digging and he put them in and covered them with clay. Martin ONeill was passing the road and he said they were the bones of a person.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Thomas Stephens
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Creggaun, Co. Mayo
