School: Tír na Móna (roll number 10441)
- Location:
- Tirnamona, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: E. Blackburn
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Graffa, Parish of Tydavnet, surrounded by deep bank. Gap in bank, like an entrance, no trees, two lone bushes on the bank. Its diameter is about twenty four feet. A tunnel is supposed to be underneath it. Supposed to be a Danish fort.
From observation. Collected by
Wallace Graham, Age 12, Graffa, Smithboro.- Collector
- Wallace Graham
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Graffagh, Co. Monaghan
- Killadonelly, Parish of Tydavnet. Circular fort about one hundred feet in diameter. Surrounded by a bank on which grow whitethorn trees. A gap in the bank for an entrance. Nobody ever cut a tree in it for fear of evil befalling him. Supposed to be a fort of the Danes.
From observation. Collected by
Bobbie Chambers, Age 12 and 1/2
Killadonelly
Ballinode
Co Monaghan
2/12/1937