School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSiúr Pól
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- (continued from previous page)said to be haunted. There are trees growing around it. It is circular in shape and is built of stone. No one likes to enter this fort. Fairies are supposed to be seen there. A man was once passing this fort at night and he heard music and dancing.
The other forts are mounds of earth and there are also trees growing round them and they are circular in shape. There was a white horse seen in one of them with bells tied round his neck.
- Once there lived in Burrane an man named Reeves who dug a fort and the next day he died(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kitty Cunningham
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Molougha, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mrs Cunningham
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Molougha, Co. Clare
