School: Rathcormac (roll number 8463)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: M. Bean Uí Fhéinneadha
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0158, Page 003
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You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution. - There is a rath in front of my house in Drum. There is a small hole going down into it, and down underneath there is a chamber. If you went down in the dark you would be very frightened. I went down into it and at the very back of the cave there is a flight of stone steps. I went down and at the end a trap door. I drew a bolt which fastened it and I saw that I was in the centre of a forth. I walked round it when my foot struck a stone I heard a voice like thunder coming from the bowels of the Earth.
The forth is covered with black-thorn bushes about two & a half yards high. It is about forty yards round. It is really not round but oval shaped. If you were in(continues on next page)
