School: Keeny
- Location:
- Keeny, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: E. Ó Cléirigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0972, Page 505
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- (continued from previous page)and Owen Callaghan's. Lee's fort is round inside and when Mr Lee's Father came to live there there were two rings and a stone wall around it. There was a round height in the centre and a ring on it which still remain. Between it and the other ring there was a hollow. Out side the rings was the stone wall and only one place in that wall to enter the fort. Mr Lee's father built the present dwelling house and out offices from the stones of the stone wall. Mr Lee and his brother drew the stones in a slipe. When the stone wall was gone Mr Lee's father cut away the ring and levelled the height level with the hollow. There is a gripe in it which is supposed to never go dry only when it is full of dirt.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Terry Rogers
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Corcashel, Co. Cavan
