School: Gleann Guail, Dúrlas Éile
- Location:
- New Birmingham, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Máire Ní Dhubhsháine
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- There are six Forts in this district and one of them is on Kiely's farm about a mile from Glengoole. It is surrounded with a mound of earth and one ring of trees and it is circular in shape. It is said that a man was once ploughing there and one of the horses' feet went down in a hole, and the man looked into it and he saw a gravel road and he heard voices saying "do you want to knock the house on us?"
About a mile North of this fort across the fields there lies another fort on Mr. Firzgearld's farm. There are no mounds of earth around it, but a circle of trees.
A hundred yards West of this fort on Miss Slattery's farm is another fort. There is a mound of earth around it, and a circle of trees.
There is another fort of circular shape in Derry Vella with a mound of earth and a circle of trees around it.
There is a fort on Davy Fitzgearld's farm, and there are trees and earth around it.
There is a fort on Kennedy's farm about a(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Ellen Dineen
- Gender
- Female
