School: Gleann an Dúin - Prison (roll number 17042)
- Location:
- Prison East, Co. Mayo
- Teacher: Máire A. Ní Dhocartaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0095C, Page 01_042
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- (continued from previous page)the sods in the fort. The gent, a man named Barrett came himself and dug the first few sods, this encouraged the men to do the work; but Barrett was in his grave that day twelve months.
There was another fort in the Ran-Park and this Barrett got his men to level it. His herd, a man named O'Neill advised him to let the fort alone. The late Very Reverend Canon Gibbons who was parish priest of Ball some fifty years ago told the people from the altar that they should not interfere with the forts because the people who dwelt within them had their burial places in them too and that they should let the dead rest.
The people call these circular(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Mary A. O' Doherty
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Patsy Ausboro
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 84
- Address
- Tawnagh More, Co. Mayo
