School: Tattenclave
- Location:
- Tattintlieve, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Bríd Ní Chróinín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0948, Page 215
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- (continued from previous page)them under corn-stacks, as a safety from wet ground when the corn was threshed the straw was given to the cattle. But one by one the cattle all died, because of the fort-bushes that were put under the stacks.
Another story is told about Liscomiskey fort. One night a man was coming home from his ceilidhe and he heard digging up on the fort. It was a moonlight night, and he could see the shadows of two people, digging their best. Next morning he went and examined the fort, and he found that there was a hole dug in the middle of the fort This hole was about six feet long, four feet wide and one foot deep.
It was afterwards found out that there was a woman from(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Packie Mc Carvill
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
- Informant
- Peter Deighan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
- Occupation
- Farmer
- Address
- Drumhillagh, Co. Monaghan
