School: Colthurst, Ráth Cúil
- Location:
- Rathcool, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Seán Ó Murchadha
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- (continued from previous page)minding it and there is an entrance hole in it. You could see another fort from it. The other fort is in Mr. Sullivan's land in Laught in Dromtarriffe parish. Neither of the forts was ever tilled.
Two men Jeremiah Creedon and John Kelleher went down the entrance hole. They are both dead now R.I.P. They went down by means of ropes. When they reached the bottom they found themselves in a long passage which descended downwards. There were two doors on the passage one on each side. They looked in one of the doors and they saw a place that looked like a kitchen. They were about to go into the room when a small man with a tall hat came out of the other door and slipped into the room into which they were about to go.(continues on next page)
