School: Kilbeggan (Mercy Convent) (roll number 14491)
- Location:
- Kilbeggan, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Sr Philomena
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- Forts are plentiful around here It is not known who made them They are all circular in shale and fenced in by white thorn trees no-body ever interferes with them.
- Collector
- Mary Ellen Keegan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Killard, Co. Westmeath
- There is a fort near our house. It is called a Ring. There is a embankment of earth around it. A man is supposed to have seen blood coming from a tree there, when cutting it
There is a fairy fort in Killalee. It is said by old people that this fort was built by the Dains. It is built under the ground. There is a passage down into it which is(continues on next page) - Collector
- Kathleen Gormley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Glengorm, Co. Westmeath
