School: Errigal Trough (roll number 15565)
- Location:
- Emyvale, Co. Monaghan
- Teacher: Saragh Gillanders
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0958, Page 315
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- (continued from previous page)much importance, as it contains only a few white - thorn trees.
The townland of Corry also contains a fort, and Mulnafinnock has a fort of shrubbery and whiethorn bushes.
Killyreask has a fort of no importance.
Raflaconny has a large fort of shrubbery covering an Irish acre of ground.
Skinahergna has also a fort, but of little importance.
Dernagola contains a fort which was enlarged about fifty years ago, and planted with trees; but these trees are all cut down now, as the property changed hands some twenty years ago.
All these forts are visible from Luppan. they are all circular in form, some of them partially levelled and reclaimed for labouring ground.
I never heard of any subterranean hold in any of them, or of anyone going down through any form of passage to explore them.
There are also fairy stories attached to all these forts, and the fairies are supposed to live there.
These ports are supposed to be of Danish origin, apparently fortifications of defence.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Annie Hall
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- John Mc Elmeel
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corry, Co. Monaghan
