School: Gortnaskeagh (roll number 16321)
- Location:
- Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Anna Nic Aodha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0199, Page 161
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- (continued from previous page)and in the parish of Drumlease. People went astray in this fort but no one was ever lost in it. It is said that long ago a man was walking this fort but no one was ever lost in it. He heard the fairies churning under the ground. The man got afraid and ran home. Long ago the sound of horses galloping was heard in the Corrigens at night. Next day people went to track their feet but they could find no track of them.
- About one hundred yards from the shore of Lough Melvin in Co. Leitrim in the historic parish Rossenver stands the remains of an old Monastery in which Saint Mogue dwelt. One day cook served him with dinner which consisted of a chicken. It being on one of those days on which Mogue used to abstain from eating flesh meat and seeing the chicken on the table before him he asked the cook had she no fish; She answered "No" where one the Holy Man performed a great miracle by converting the chicken into a fish called the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Agnes Loughlin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
- Informant
- Bartly Harte
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 50
- Address
- Gortnaskeagh, Co. Leitrim
