School: Bloomhill
- Location:
- Cloncraff or Bloomhill, Co. Offaly
- Teacher: C. Nic Annraoi
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- (continued from previous page)covered with stones and white thorn bushs. There is no under ground cave in the forts, but there is a cave in Ballyduff. One entrance is in John Shea's field and the other in Pat Shea's field about 300 yards away. DUring the Black and Tan's time people used ride here
My John Shea lost four or five sheep in this cave and after that the mouth was closed up. Long ago people used enter at one end and some out at the other. Mr Shea was ploughing one day near the cave and he came on a chimney and smoke coming up through it. Two or three goats fell down in it and then it was closed up. Skeletons were found in this cave. - Transcription guide »You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.