School: Cluainte (roll number 12404)
- Location:
- Cloontia, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire Ní Riagáin
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“There are three forts in the townland of Cloontia...”
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- Ellen Keane
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- Female
- Address
- Tawnaghbeg, Co. Mayo
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“Long ago the owners...”
Long ago the owners of the fort of Eskerard ploughed it and when the potatoes grew they were covered with blood and nothing grew there since. There were lights seen and music heard init, there was also churning and drumming heard in it and the people were afraid to go outside the door at nightime.
Patrick MacGeever, Slievemore, Cloontia age not sixty years
It is said that the fairies held a fair on Eskerard long ago and that grass never grew on the hill.
James Duffy, Dernabrock East, Cloontia.
Information from his grandfather age over 80 years