School: Ballymartle (roll number 7361)
- Location:
- Ballymartle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Patrick Kelleher
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0322, Page 005
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- (continued from previous page)4. Some people say that if you pass a Fort after twelve o-clock in the night, you would either see a light or hear the fairy music. It is said that when the ''Danes'' were in Ireland long ago, the Irish people used to hide the sacred things of the altar in the Forts. 5. A farmer, long ago, ploughed a Fort, and later one of his family died. Another name for a Fort is a lis. Long ago there was a tree growing in the centre of a Fort and a storm came and blew it down. There was nothing underneath it, and the inside was all built with some fine building stones. The owner of the land decided to get them out. He went in rooting them, and one fell on his foot, a neighbour went in for a load and he heard a voice saying ''Take no Stone Here''.
- Collector
- Michael Hemlock
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Coolkirky, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Cornelius Hemlock
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Coolkirky, Co. Cork
