School: Knocktoosh, Ráthluirc (roll number 12786)
- Location:
- Knocktoosh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghruagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0490, Page 116
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“Once upon a time there was a fort...”
Once upon a time there was a Fort about a mile and a half from my house. One day there were four men working in the Fort. One evening a poor man came to them and told them to stop working in the Fort and they refused. Then he went to a neighbour's house near by he told the woman went to the Fort and told them to stop. But they paid no heed to her.
The day after the first man got a pain in his side and it never left for a year and then he died. A year after the second man got the same pain he died. The third man got the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Lizzie Barrett
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Knockglass, Co. Limerick