School: Castletown, Mountrath (roll number 2731)
- Location:
- Castletown, Co. Laois
- Teacher: Bean Uí Mhearnáin
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- There is a Rath at Mackeys in Cudda about three miles form Castletown, and there are many stories told about it. Once upon a time there was a woman and every evening she went to milk the cows she brought her little boy with her. Evening after evening the little boy thought that where was a big needle sticking up in his foot, as the passed through the rath.There was a Rath is Cudda now known as Mercier's Rath. One day a man was cutting scallops and a Fairy appeared to him and told him to cut scallops in the ring of the Rath no more.Once upon at time down in Mercier's Rath a certain man who owned the field had engaged a workman to cut up the stumps that destroyed the shape of the field. The workman refused because there is an old tradition which says that no Irishman should go near a Rath less they would deprive the fairies of their shelter.(continues on next page)
