School: Mín Bán (roll number 15394)
- Location:
- Meenbane, Co. Donegal
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Coluim
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 1096, Page 390
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Mín Bán
- XML Page 390
- XML “An Old Fort”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)not a single object in the room.
They spied a little space in the sall large enough for one at a time to pass through so my undle Patrick ventured in first followed by the other. That room was the exact same and there were ten in all.
Every room they entered was getting more sultry and the candle was fast melting away so that by the time they got out again it was almost consumed. I asked my grandmother why the doors leading from room to room were so small and she said "You see if their enemies attacked them they all fled into the other rooms and if the enemy followed only one could enter at a time so each man was killed.
- Informant
- Mrs Mc Cafferty
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 82
- Address
- Meenagrauv, Co. Donegal
