School: Kiffa
- Location:
- Kiffagh, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: Helen Dinneen
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- (continued from previous page)No person knows Irish in Graddum but there are some people who know stories in English. The land is rather hilly and is of a heavy clayey nature, which yields good crops in a dry season but in a very wet one is water-logged.
There are no rivers in the district except a stream which is called Graddum River which flows into Graddum Lake.
There are no stories connected with them but there was an old fort on the shores of Graddum Lake on Mr. H. Morrow's farm which was levelled about twenty years ago and just after that a strange man is supposed to have came up from the fort and appeared to the previous owner of the farm Mr Corkadale and ever since ill-luck is supposed to have dogged the steps of these families.
- Collector
- Cherry Gordon
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
- Informant
- Mr J. Gordon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Graddum, Co. Cavan
