School: Coill an Gharráin (roll number 14865)
- Location:
- Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Riagáin
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- (continued from previous page)It consists of a circular height on top of a hill. The people of the village believe that the fairies live in it, and that if you interfered with those forts that you will have bad luck. For that reason that the people are afraid to interfere with them.There is no underground passages in any of those four forts. There is no fence around them.
- Collector
- Thomas Leonard
- Gender
- Unknown
- Address
- Killacorraun, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Thomas Leonard
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Killacorraun, Co. Mayo