School: Achadh Bolg (roll number 3588)
- Location:
- Aghabullogue, Co. Cork
- Teacher: (name not given)
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0343, Page 349
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- (continued from previous page)exploring further something quenched the candle. They then lit a match but it quenched. They failed to light the candle so that they had to come out again. The entrance or the hole which is in the middle of the fort is now closed up with stones as pigs were going down there. There were many stories connected with this fort in olden times. Music was supposed to be heard playing and cocks were supposed to be heard crowing and the people believed that fairies were there. It is said that these forts were built by the danes or by another race called the Tuatha Dé Dánnans. The Lepracaun used be also seen there. It used also be said in the olden times that if a person died of a sudden death, he was carried by the fairies and taken to the nearest fort. The underground passages lead from one fort to another. The fort at Woodfield connects with one in Clonmoyle.
- Collector
- Mr T.T. Murphy
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolineagh, Co. Cork
