School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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- (continued from previous page)a mushroom, you will find a Leipreacain. If you pass by a forth when the Moon is high you will hear him hammering little shoes for fairies. If you find a little red cap for a leipreacain you will get three wishes.
- There is a rath in front of my house in Drum. There is a small hole going down into it, and down underneath there is a chamber. If you went down in the dark you would be very frightened. I went down into it and at the very back of the cave there is a flight of stone steps. I went down and at the end a trap door. I drew a bolt which fastened it and I saw that I was in the centre of a forth. I walked round it when my foot struck a stone I heard a voice like thunder coming from the bowels of the Earth.
The forth is covered with black-thorn bushes about two & a half yards high. It is about forty yards round. It is really not round but oval shaped. If you were in(continues on next page)
