School: Leachtbhruadair (Loughfooder) (roll number 14366)
- Location:
- Lackbrooder, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0450, Page 164
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The following was related by Mr. John Griffin, Ballinaltin, Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry.
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The old people used say that the “forts” were built by the Danes.
They believed that little brown-red stones, which are to be seen about forts, were given that colour by the fires burned by the Danes.
_A Fort called “Cnocán na Rinnce”.
There are the remains of a fort in the farm of Lawrence Hickey of Ballinaltin, Knocknagashel.
Music was often heard there and the good people were supposed to dance to it.
Stones have been quarried where the fort was situated. A man named Michael Mangan, who died two years ago, was quarrying stones there when he received an injury that made him lame for the rest of his life.
Another man badly injured a leg while working at the same quarry. It is said that he struck himself with a pick-axe which he was using.
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- Collector
- Mícheál P. Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Mr John Griffin
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 52
- Occupation
- Care-taker
- Address
- Knocknagashel, Co. Kerry
