School: Cluain le Fán (roll number 12817)

Location:
Cloonliffen, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Seán Ó Callaráin
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    in North Mayo and there is an opening about three feet high and two feet wide and if you threw in a stone you could hear it hop from step to step for a bout twenty or thirty steps. It is on the top of a very big high hill and the man who owns it tills the sides of the hill. He had potatoes sowed there in ridges and when he was putting up the mold, a terrible breese of wind blew up from under the grouned, so it thought there must be a cave there. About thirty years ago people came to examine it but no one knows or no one seems to know what they thought about it.
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    Topics
    1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
        1. fairy forts (~5,616)
    Language
    English
    Informant
    Mrs Jennings
    Gender
    Female
    Age
    85
    Address
    Rahard, Co. Mayo