School: Ballyfeeny (roll number 9468)
- Location:
- Cill Ghlais, Co. Ros Comáin
- Teacher: Cáit, Bean Uí Mhurthuile
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- There is a small fort near my home
It is situated in a field owned by a Flynn. It consists of two mounds, trees are growing inside them while bushes are growing on the outside.
There is an old belief attached to this fort, that once when two men were ploughing near it a bush sprung up in front of the houses. One of the men pulled up the bush and immediatly the man and both horses were struck blind. The other man seeing this went and sowed the bush and when it was sown his companion and the horses were again able to see.
It is believed that a crock of gold is buried under that bush.
- Collector
- Vincent Cox
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Mháirtín, Co. Ros Comáin
- Informant
- Tom Flynn
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Baile Mháirtín, Co. Ros Comáin
