School: Ballycumber (C.)
- Location:
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: Mrs Fenelon
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0810, Page 337
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- (continued from previous page)The hare appears to play a more legendary part than the cat and there are several stories to that effect. There have been some strange incidents with regards to interfering with forts and old people will state that facts.
But these occurrences were rare as the forts were held in awe and veneration and lie there un touched through the years spoiling many would-be tillage fields.
Some legends say these forts were built by the Danes as military encampments and as the years went by, trees grow around them.
More accounts go to say that they were made by a magician sect of the De Dedaan people, when defeated in battle by the Malesians went under the hills in Shees or fairy palaces, and sore to plague the Milesian race until the end of time. As the Danaans were particularly fond of white horses there seems to be a leaning to that(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Éinrítte Ní Fhionnalláin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Patrick Flanagan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Address
- Ballycumber, Co. Offaly
