School: Borrisoleigh (roll number 590)
- Location:
- Borrisoleigh, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: (name not given)
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0544, Page 179
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- About a quarter of a mile outside this place there is a fort called the black fort. It is in Cook's land.
Often, when people are passing it, they look in and sometimes see a cat inside.
One day a man tried to go in but when he was halfway in he heard a cry. It frightened him so much that he never went near it again.
In the olden times when people had no houses, it is said they lived in forts.
- Collector
- Michael Prior
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- John Prior
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 60
