School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0340, Page 003
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- (continued from previous page)late P.P. of this parish got men to lift it up and the inscription on it is Ogham.
- Deshure fort stands on the top of Deshure hill. I suppose it is over a thousand feet higher that the valley below and why it was constructed at so great an altitude I never heard anyone to explain. There are many old tales told about it. I have heard that you would not be lucky if you tilled the land inclosed within its circular walls. My father said he knew an old man named Mick Dwyer who told him that he had a little lamb that went in through the openings of the fort and remained inside a day and a night. The old man said he kept the lamb for a year after and that he never grew an inch. It was on the top of this fort in the year 1882 that the Whiteboys assembled to give battle to the British Redcoats and sad to tell their efforts ended in disaster.
- Collector
- Margaret Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Eugene Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cooldorragha, Co. Cork
