School: Cluainín, Granard
- Location:
- Clooneen, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Raghallaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0763, Page 106
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: Cluainín, Granard
- XML Page 106
- XML “Stories about People who Interfered with Forts”
- XML “Stories about People who Interfered with Forts”
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)prevent the other from entering the house Next morning when he went out on the street he found numerous traces of human blood. That day he went out on the land. It happened to be a very calm day. A twig was blown from a tree and hit him in the eye and ever afterwards he suffered from blindness of an eye. It was remarked that he never went outside the door after sunset, after the incident.
- Michael McBrien owned a farm upon which there was a fort (Mullinroe) One Spring's day he thought he should go and score some ridges for potatoes in the fort. He did so, but next morning when he returned to finish the work he found scores(continues on next page)
- Informant
- James Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 57
- Address
- Derrycassan, Co. Longford
