School: Carrigabruise
- Location:
- Carrigabruse, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: P. Mc Enrae
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- In a field in my fathers farm in Lislea adjoining the lane which connects the Maghera - Cloughergoole road with the Dublin - Cavan one is a particularly interesting fort or dún. It is something larger than any I have yet seen and is often used as a garden and planted with onions, cabbage etc. Mrs John Brady, Lislea, told me that while she was in the employment of Bridget Flanagan, also of Lislea, and now dead, the latter told her a copper kettleful of sovereigns was buried in it. No account of how the money was buried exists but nobody has ever tried to unearth it.The commonest belief, however, is that the fairies own the treasure as many strange stories are told about the fort. On the opposite side of the lane is a cottage and a farm-house. The cottage stands on the site of an old "shanty" in which, some years ago, lived an old man named Mulvanny. This man had a certain crop in the rath and one day, whilst tending to it, he chanced to say:-
"I wish I had the price of an ounce of tobacco."
Next morning, on going out, he picked up three pennies(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Maureen O Connell
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mrs John Brady
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 52
- Address
- Lislea, Co. Cavan
