School: Abbeytown Convent N.S. (roll number 15043)
- Location:
- Boyle, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Sr. M. Columbanus
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- (continued from previous page)The southern section of the town contains some fine funeral mounds or ''doors'' as they sometimes termed. One of these is raised on a perpendicular mound, about forty feet above the eminence called Knockmellragh, situated within the Rockingham demense. It was once fossed but the fossed but the fosse is now scarcely traceable.Another and a finer specimen gives the name to Knockadoo, about five miles west of the town. It is about forty feet high, but its fosse has been preserves very perfectly and is a present well secured. On its top large stones have been circularly embedded.
- There was a small fort in my farther's farm in Lecarrow. It is situated on a stone-wall and is enclosed with bushes. No one knows when it was built or for what purpose. This fort is in the bottom of a field which was once tilled with potatoes. One evening when the farmer (wl) was digging the potatoes a little man dressed in red came out of the fort and picking up a supply of potatoes returned to the fort. Light(continues on next page)