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School: Cromadh (B.)

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Croom, Co. Limerick
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Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0507, Page 234

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    “In a field to the south-east of the high fort of Bohernageela there are two mounds which are said to be graves.”

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    fort of Boherageela there are two mounds which are said to be graves. I have seen them and while they certainly look like rather newly made graves, I am very doubtful of the veracity of the legend. Boherageela is translated locally as being equivalent to Bothar na nGceadna, the road of the geese. I am not able to gainsay that rendering.
    The fort referred to is extremely high as to its central circular space, and has a fosse of almost twenty yards width between the inner ring and the outer wall, which is very much broken down to the west and north west. The overall diameter of the outer ring must be in the neighbourhood of eighty to ninety yards. In an adjoining field is another ring, a single sgeach-crowned ring, flat as the surrounding field, with a diameter of a hundred yards.
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    “Every seven years Gearóid Iarla comes up out of the Lough and rides round it, and every seven years the Lough claims its human victim.”

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    "Every seven years Gearoid Iarla comes up out of the lough and rides round it, and every seven years the lough claims its human victim. Some one is sure to be drowned there within that period".
    (Miss C____y, Boherageela)
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