School: Mastersons (roll number 8390)
- Location:
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: Gobnait de Búit
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0197, Page 425
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- (continued from previous page)in the townland of Gortamone. This fort is round and there are Whitehorns growing round it. No one ever cuts bushes in a fort because it would be very unlucky. Through this fort there is a big tunnel and there is a roof of flags on the tunnel. It is supposed that the present owner's father got a piece of a spinning wheel in the passage. At one side there are steps going down into it, and at the other side there are none. It is supposed that this tunnel goes from one fort to another about half a mile off in the same townland. Old people tell stories of lights that were seen in this fort going round in a ring, and they also heard the noise of music and dancing.
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- Collector
- Ethel Moore
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
