School: Cill Thiomáin, Durrus, Bantry (roll number 15989)

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   preparing to go to a fair he went for his horse to the field near his house and he thought he saw an object coming toward him and he stopped for a minute and kept looking at it. He made off that it was a man about two feet high. He ran home and he did not go to the fair that night.
   2/ There is another fort in the town land of Cashelane. It is situated close to Mr. Pyburn's house. It is surrounded by a big rampart and there is a deep dyke. between the rampart and the fort. There is one opening near Mr. Pyburn's house and the other in Drishane. In the time of the Black and Tans the soldier's often hid there but the English found it out. They often closed each opening and a lot of the soldiers died there. Anyone never got near the fort and even though it occupies a lot of ground no one ever tilled it. About a hundred years ago a man ploughed it once and that night his two horses died.
   RATHOORA FORT. There is another fort in this land which is called Rathoora fort. There is one rampart round it and it is situated in very high ground. It is from that fort that Rathoora got its name but Rathoora is not the right name for this townland but Rathtuata which means fort of the Axe because it was with axes they defended the fort. I know an man who was fowling a few years ago in the fort. He happened to look into a foxes din and he thought he saw a handle of something. He put in his hand caught

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   Topics

   1. place-space-environment
      1. legendary and spiritual places (~158)
         1. fairy forts (~5,616)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Bridie Kennedy

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Lissacaha, Co. Cork