School: Rockwood, Béal Átha an Dá Chab
- Location:
- Doirín na gCloch, Co. Chorcaí
- Teacher: Eibhlín Ní Chorcora
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0288, Page 289
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- (continued from previous page)they used to live in it. The fairies were supposed to live in it. One day a man was graffing the fort. A man wearing a black cloak came to him and told him to stop graffing and he did. He went home then and he was buried that day week.
- There is a Fort in Ballybawn. There is a white hound minding it. It is circular in shape. One night a man was passing it and the hound jumped out over the fence and caught him by the leg. A few days after the man died. The Danes were supposed to live in it. There is another Fort in Lisheencreagh There is an entrance hole in the middle. Once a man was driving a cow across the fort. The cow(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary O Shea
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Goirtín Ula, Co. Chorcaí
- Informant
- Denis O Shea
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 58
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Goirtín Ula, Co. Chorcaí
