School: Clochar na Trócaire, Buirgheas Uí Luighdheach (roll number 3486)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: An tSr. M. Oilibhéir
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 102
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- (continued from previous page)in it and he did not either because he died before the house was completed. Within view of this there are two forts on an eminence which gives it the name of the height of Lios. Those two forts are within a quarter of a mile of each other. The old people used to say that they often saw on a moon-light night a pack of hounds in full cry going from one fort to the other. It is dangerous to be benighted near those. A man who knew this locality was one night crossing and when he came between the two forts he found that he could not find his way out of the field and he had to remain in the field until day light. There are forts all over the country too numerous to mention. All the forts are circular in form and no person on whose land they are situated will ever interfere with them as
(Continued after a Collection of Prayers)
Information got from Mr. Owen Darmody and Mr. T. Maher both of Pallas St. Borrisoleigh.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eileen Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mr Pat Mahon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
