School: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- Location:
- Collooney, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: An tSr. Teresita
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0177, Page 117
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: An Clochar, Cúil Mhaoile
- XML Page 117
- XML “Fairy Forts”
- XML “Fairy Forts”
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
- Near my home there are two small forts in the townland of Cloonmacduff and Parish of Ballisodare. They are just beside each other, and the owner of the field in which the forts are in is a man named James Corrogian of Collooney.
The forts are circular in shape, and there are some bushes growning around them. There is an entrance hole in the side of one of them, and people say that there is an underground passage leading to Kilross from there. People also say that in former years some man (whose name I do not know) explored the interior but when he was half way through it he saw the print of a foot in the ground and he got afraid and turned back.
The field in which those forts are, is a grazing field for cows, and although the owner of the field never interfered with them
in any, he has a big hay shed built near them.
- Collector
- Bridie O Boy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmacduff, Co. Sligo
- Informant
- Mrs O Boy
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cloonmacduff, Co. Sligo
- There are a lot of fairy forts round my house. We call them forts. One of these forts is in the townland of Glan. It is circular in shape. There are rocks and trees and bushes growing around it and in the side of it there is a hole, but no one ever explored the interior. There is also a fort on our land, but we never interfered with it.(continues on next page)
