School: Tobar (B.)
- Location:
- Tober, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Ó Maoltuile
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- Thomas Holton
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Offaly
- Informant
- Michael Digan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 55
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Address
- Newtown, Co. Offaly
- There is a fort about nine miles from this school. It is in the middle of a big field. The townsland that it is in is Killahan-Tubber. A light is to be seen there between eleven o'clock and twelve o'clock at night. A man was coming from rambling one night. He saw a cat; then it turned into a dog. He threw his cap at the do and the dog went off in a ball of fire. A woman named Lunch was sitting for her husband to come home from rambling. She was sitting on a rock when a man came up with a wheel-barrow and threw a heap of stones at her feet.
There is another fort in Patrick Kane's field in Cloughtanny. There was a woman once. She was milking her cow. When she was coming home, she saw a(continues on next page)
