School: Scoil na mBráthar, Tráighlí
- Location:
- Tralee, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An Br. Breathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0440, Page 128
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- (continued from previous page)stunted firs and ferns. Old people say that a boy while hunting in the vicinity of the fort started a hare. His dog wounded the hare which escaped. The boy and dog pursued it to the fort. To the boy's surprise, when he got inside he could see no hare but a woman bleeding from a wound.
The fort at Ballydunlea is similar in shape to the fort at Lohercannon. I heard a very old lady telling a strange story about that fort. She said that she knew a young girl who went picking blackberries near the fort. The first blackberry she picked she dropped into her mouth. The action was hardly completed when a stone dropped as if from nowhere and broke her foot. She died very soon after.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hubert Kelly
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballyvelly, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mrs Margaret Lambe
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 79
- Address
- Ballyvelly, Co. Kerry
