School: Newtownanner, Cluain Meala (roll number 1559)
- Location:
- Newtownanner Demesne, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Corcoráin
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“My father Patrick Burke told me about this fort.”
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morning." If these stones were knocked he would not cut the ditch. No one hardly ever went into a fort because if you fell in a fort you are sure to get hurt and no doctor could cure that hurt. All forts are connected with each other. There are different names for a fort such as a Rath, a Lios and there are other names also.
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“There is a fairy fort in one of John Dee's fields in Kingcor...”
Eamon Fogarty Derrinlaur Clonmel
My father Edward Fogarty told be about this fort.
There is a fairy fort in one of John Dee's fields in Kingcor. There is a circle of trees and a hold in the middle of it. If a person stood in the middle of it they could see two other forts up on the hill.
When the Danes were in Ireland it is said that they buried gold in that fort and that they asked a soldier three times would he watch the gold dead or alive. When the soldier was saying that he would watch it the third time they shot him dead. When the Danes were(continues on next page) - Collector
- Eamon Fogarty
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinlaur Lower, Co. Waterford
- Informant
- Edward Fogarty
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- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Derrinlaur Lower, Co. Waterford