School: Keeny
- Location:
- Keeny, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 503
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- (continued from previous page)small round fort. There is one ring of trees round it. There is one entrance hole in it but nobody ever went down in it. A man cut a tree in it to make a stake for a cow. The next morning the cow was lying dead in the byre. There are no crops planted in it because it is on a rock. The people say it is unlucky to do anything on them.
Rehills fort is on a hill and it is in the Townland of Drumaharid. It is a double fort because there are two rings of trees in it. Paddy Smith cut the half of it a few weeks ago. He got blood poison in his finger. He got a prod of a thorn. He is getting off the finger now. A man named Rudden who lived there long ago cut the fort. The next morning he got a calf hanged in a tree. Every night the pot, pan and kettle were thrown through the(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Terry Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corcashel, Co. Cavan
