School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Derreennaclogh, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 292
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- There is a fairy fort in Derrycarhoon. It is circular in shape. and surrounded by an embankment of earth. There is another fort in Shronagree. It has an entrance hole in the centre. It is surrounded by an embankment of earth. One day a man was preparing for potatoes in the field where the fort is. A woman came up to him, and asked him if he could not get any other field in which to plant his crops. The man, immediately, went home. He fell sick that night, and he was buried that day week.
There is another fort in Lisheencreagh. A Swanton man, who was buried about eight years ago, was driving cows over the fort one evening. On the way one of them stopped. She remained still for about a quarter of an hour, and he could not make her go. When the man went home, he found that the cow was milked.
There is a fort in Gortnagroe.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen O' Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derrylahard, Co. Cork
- Informant
- James Sullivan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Derrylahard, Co. Cork
