Imleabhar: CBÉ 0460 (Cuid 2)

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1. Ráth

   

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   There was a big ráth in the middle of a field in Hortown and a man by the name of Lee went to level it. He allowed twas taking up too much ground and that he'd level it out and till the land. There was two or three sceachs growing in it, and he got an engine and fastened steel cables from the engine to the sceachs and attacked pulling them out of the ground.
   When the engine started to work, instead of the sceachs coming towards the engine 'twas the engine was going towards the sceachs. 'Twasn't able to stir them.
   He got a second enging and yoked it to the other wan, and this time the steel cable brake and flew and hit Lee in the eye and knocked it out of his head. The two engines weren't able to bring the sceachs out of the ground so then had to leave them so. The rath is there yet and 'twas never touched since. Wasn't that a remarkable thing now? There is no wan that ever meddled with a Ráth but met with some misfortune

   

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   Eanáir 1938

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   • John Carroll