School: Caroreigh (roll number 6700)
- Location:
- Carrowreagh, Co. Wexford
- Teacher: Séamas Ó Cellaigh
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- About fifty yards from our house there is a very large rath, and about half a mile from it is another rath.
This one is very small; in the centre there is a mound and some people say it is the burial place of a king
The other rath is surrounded by deep dykes on the inside and outside of a ditch. In one corner is a small stone wall by the side of which is a narrow passage, which goes to a field. They do'nt think there is any treasure in it, but one morning the owner of the rath saw that someone was after digging in it during the night.One Autumn my father was making stacks in a corn field, the day was very calm but suddenly a whirlwind came from the direction of the rath. It came across in a straight line knocking down a row of stacks from one end of the field to the other, it then went across other fields in which were stacks and knocked down one all in the same direction. It went on and diseppered in a rath in Whitechurch.
- Collector
- Annie Ryan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mulmontry, Co. Wexford
- Collector
- Bessie Banville
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Mulmontry, Co. Wexford
- Informant
- James Ryan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mulmontry, Co. Wexford
