School: Stormanstown, Ardee (roll number 9371)
- Location:
- Stormanstown, Co. Louth
- Teacher: P. Ó Ceallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0668, Page 135
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- (continued from previous page)in shape. There is a fence of bushes round them. There is no entrance hole.
There is no talk of the Danes being connected with them in any way. It is said that in the one called Rock Sionnac lights used to be seen being moved through it by the fairies.
It is also said there is a big black cat wathcing the latter fort.
It is said that there was once a woman coming from a neighbour's house. She had to pass this fort. When she was passing, a darkness resembling a big cloud came before her on the road. As she could neither go on nor go back she sat down in the ditch and began to shout. A man who heard her shouting came to assist her. He asked her what had happened her. She told(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Janie Murphy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Corstown, Co. Meath
