School: Rochfortbridge (B.) (roll number 1122)
- Location:
- Rochfortbridge, Co. Westmeath
- Teacher: Ml. Rowan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0730, Page 468
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- (continued from previous page)Years ago there was a man in the field and he said to himself that he would go up and go into the cave. He went into the cave and he went along for some time till he saw a number of soldiers sleeping. The man seeing the soldiers fled in terror.
the Fir Bolgs are supposed to have built it. One day last year four men came to cut bushes around the fort. There was never dancing or singing or sport of any kind heard in it. When anyone would be ploughing in the field they would not plough within perch of the fort. If they did some of the cattle or sheep would be drowned or killed that would be in the field.
Michael Cully.
I got the information from my father.
age 60
- Collector
- Michael Cully
- Gender
- Male
