School: Monedarragh, Mostrim (roll number 7642)
- Location:
- Monadarragh, Co. Longford
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Conghaile
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0769, Page 426
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- (continued from previous page)There is a hole in the fort at Carleton's and the old people often threw stones down into it, and they could hear them roll down, as if there were stairs under the ground.
Forts are of a round shape and old people say that the Danes built them and people that cut bushes in them never had any luck.
One night a man was out late and he could hear something saying that a fort was burning. When he went home he told what he heard and a black cat said to him "Bad luck to you! couldn't you tell me that when you came in. And the cat jumped across the door and never was seen again.
- Informant
- Bernard Daly
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 74
