School: Bansha (B.) (roll number 11964)
- Location:
- Bansha, Co. Tipperary
- Teacher: Peter Horgan
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0575, Page 169
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Bansha (B.)
- XML Page 169
- XML “Story of a Fort”
- XML “A Hidden Treasure”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)compelled to leave them. On another occasion a woman went there to pick sticks. She picked them successfully and brought them home. She put them in the fire but if they were there yet they would not take fire. In the same fort a man named Mick Peters a native of Ballagh went to cut a tree. Land had been divided recently and a part of the fort was left in his portion of land. He was cutting away until a thorn hit him in they eye and injured it severely. He was hurried off to Cork were his eye had to be removed. To-day he is to be seen with a glass eye. That reminds you that you should not damage or take anything from a fort.
- A Suirvilla near Golden an old castle is situated. Very rich people lived there in former times. A man named Ned Bourke lived convenient to it. He dreamt one night that he would get gold in a particular spot(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John O' Dwyer
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Cloonfinglass, Co. Tipperary
