School: Baile Mhodáin (roll number 12011)
- Location:
- Bandon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Groves
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0314, Page 235
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- (continued from previous page)and these frequently made war on one another. To be protected against attacks, the chiefs surrounded their houses with these mounds and ditches, and an enemy could not easily cross. In some places, where they had plenty of stones, they surrounded themselves with walls of stones.
The great chiefs lived in these lisses with many ramparts and very strong forts too. But the smaller chiefs had only two ramparts, and sometimes only one.
Long ago all the churches and castles were built of wood or clay, but the earthworks were very strong and have remained. They have been standing here for about 2,000 years.
There are a few places on which there are Lisses, Duns or Raths and their name is got from this fairy dwelling, such as: - Rathmore, Lisaphooca, Dunmore a Lislavane. Most people say it is unlucky to interfere with a Lis, so it is very seldom we hear of anybody doing anything to them.
- Collector
- Mary Busteed
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cripplehill, Co. Cork
