School: Drumkeelanmore (roll number 12525)
- Location:
- Drumkeelan More, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Mary Mc Rann
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0208, Page 348
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- There is a fort near my home. It is situated on the top of a hill in Cornacranaghy. It is round in shape and surrounded by bushes. It is sunk down in the centre of a high ditch round about it. From this fort you can see three or four others.
There is a lone bush in the middle of it. Nobody ever cuts a lone bush because it is supposed that your body will soon be covered with big lumps in a few days, or you will die soon after you cut the bush.
There is a stray sod in every fort and if you walk on it after night you will go astray, but there is a charm that if you turn your coat inside out, you will get your way again.
I have heard of a man who went into a fort at night and went astray, he was walking all night and in the morning he was still in the fort.
It is supposed that anyone who sleeps in a fort will never do any good(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary B. Lynch
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs M.A. Lee
- Relation
- Grandparent
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 72
