School: Aclint, Ardee (roll number 2138)
- Location:
- Aclint, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Neill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0667, Page 300
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- In olden times people used to see lights in those forts; there was a fort in Carrickrobin and years ago the old people then used to see lights especially if there were anyone going to die in the town land, One night there was a horse in the fort, a boy went to the fort for the horse as it was time to take her in and as it was late he was a good while away; two men went out to see was he coming with the horse and they saw the fort all lit up and the boy that went for the horse never saw the light at all; The next morning they went to see if the fire did any harm and they found every thing the way it was; The people say of the fort at Carrickrobin that a man named James Meegan heard churning going on in this fort at Carrickrobin; There was a wall built round this fort it was built by the Danes; There is a fort in the town-land of Big-Ash Knock-bridge; the fort itself is called mount the man that owned the farm that the fort is on said one day that would hack it up; Written by Rose Rooney on 10th February 1938
Told by Matt Mc Gee Reaghstown on th 9 Feb, 1938
- Collector
- Rose Rooney
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Matt Mc Gee
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Reaghstown, Co. Louth
