forts in my district, but there is a story told about a farmer who lives at Bilboa Co. Carlow. There was a rath on his farm which he tried to reclaim for tilling purposes. When he told his intentions to the older people of the district they adviced him not to carry it out as they thought it unlucky to touch a rath. The only laughed at their advice with the result that before he had gone far with the work he was taken ill, and has been in delicate health ever since.