School: Rosmead (roll number 7212)
- Location:
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: E. Lynch
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There is a fort in Raleagh there used to be fires seen on it in former times and fiddles heard playing on it my father saw a light coming towards him on a Christmas Eve night. Garrys fort is at the back of Lynchs about fifteen years ago a whole crowd of people women and children and men crossed over the hill of Cavestown to that fort talking and laughing and nobody could see them, where the short cut is from Cavestown to Farrellys crossroads there is a place nearing our field and Farrellys no matter how well you known it you would go astray in it people say there was a lepranchan seen in it at one time (the stray sod)
There are four forts in Rosmead there is a hill in our field and the name of it is Cairn an Cailín and on the top of it before it was tilled there were squares every way in it. People say that it was a little place for(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Peggy Quinn
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 12
- Address
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
- Informant
- Thomas Quinn
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 64
- Address
- Cavestown and Rosmead, Co. Westmeath
