School: Clochar na Trócaire, Cill Ruis
- Location:
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Teacher: An tSiúr Pól
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- (continued from previous page)It is also supposed to be very unlucky to plough in a fort or to sow anything in them but it is alright to save hay in them.
- There is a fort in Carufree [?] and there is a story attached to it. One day a man was walking on the field near it when to his great surprise he saw a little man with a red cap and suit and buckled shoes. The little man told him not to go near the fort or if he did he would be killed. The man did not believe him and that night he went to the Fort and nobody being there he went in through a gap in the hedge. But [?](continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan Howard
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Clare
- Informant
- Mr Howard
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilrush, Co. Clare