School: Fíodhnach (C.), Ráthluirc (roll number 4470)
- Location:
- Feenagh, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Uí Ghrádaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0496, Page 081
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- Mostly every farmer in this district has a fort in his land.Every fort is surrounded with heigh with white thorn bushes growing on top of themLong ago it was said that a man named Griffin lived in the parish of Drumcollogher and he told his wife that he would dig some fort as he heard people say they were afraid to dig a fort. One morning he set out early with his spade and shovel. When he came home in the evening he could not talk and he was insane and he had to be taken to the asylum, where he died in less than an hour. Nobody ever(y) knew which fort he dug nor his spade and shovel was never found.
- Collector
- Mary Dore
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 13
- Address
- Sheshiv, Co. Limerick
