School: Keelagh
- Location:
- Keelagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Ellen Reilly
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1025, Page 145
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- In this country forts are very plentiful.
It is in the townland of Claragh the property of John Smith. It is situated on the side of a hill It is surrounded by bushes and in the middle of it there is a lone bush growing.
There are traditions relating to this fort. The old people say that there was a priest buried there. When he was saying a Mass one time some spies shot him and when he was dying he said that a protestant would never live in Claragh nor neither did they.
The old people say that it is unlucy to cut down bushes because the fairies lived in these.
Some people would tell you that when they would be coming by a fort at(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Katie Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patrick O' Reilly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Mullalougher, Co. Cavan
