School: Knocktoosh, Ráthluirc (roll number 12786)
- Location:
- Knocktoosh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Máire Ní Ghruagáin
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0490, Page 140
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- (continued from previous page)time that sheep was going to have lambs it was into the Fort she used to go. This Fort is a place with trees and bushes all round it, they say there was people buried there long ago.
Another story is that there was a man herding cattle near this fort. He was reading a book and as he was reading he fell asleep and slept for a long time and when he woke there was a white calf standing beside him the man was still. He is living yet and is stiff. He kept the white calf and now she is thirteen years old and is a cow now. She has a calf every year. This fort is in(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Hannah M. Curtin
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rowls (Langford) North, Co. Cork
