School: Cormaddyduff
- Location:
- Cormaddyduff, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: M. Ní Ghiolla Sheanain
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0995, Page 180
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- (continued from previous page)say that when the Danes were fleeing from their stronghold they turned the shoes on their horses so that no person could know in what direction they went.
It is said that there is a dog guarding the treasures in Pull s' cisre and in order to get the treasures a person would require a tub of blood to give the dog while taking the treasures. In connection with the moat there is also is also several forts in the neighbourhood and it is said that the good folk travel occasionally from fort to fort. On their way they are supposed to cross a large field called the ''Commons'' and no person crosses those fields after sun down even to the present day.
About twelve years ago a man returning from a wake about mid-night while crossing over those fields heard the thud as it were of horse men approaching him. He stood still unable to move although he could see nothing. The horses continued(continues on next page)
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- Thomas Timmins
- Gender
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