School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 084
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- There is a lot of forts in this district They are built on the tops of high hills
It is said that that these forts were built by the Tuatha De Danan. Those people built them with clay. They made a couple of big circles and inside these the built small wooden huts and they lived in them
It is supposed not to be right to till them because they say that good people live in them Light are seen in them at night and some are led astray if the stop to watch them and very often they do not get back till the next morning
The forts were made to keep wild animals from invading the people because when the were made the country was full of wild animals and it was not safe to go outside the walls of these forts because they would be killed and eaten up
Some people say that these good people can be heard working after night and making shoes(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Charles Leonard
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullalougher, Co. Cavan
