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 06_023
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- Forts are raised heaps of earth which resemble little hills. They are round in shape. When you climb up on one of them they resemble a little round field. Many a tale is told about the forts. It is said there are beautiful rooms under neath the little round hills. It is not rightly known who built them some say it was the Danes and some it was the Irish.
People are always a little shy of the forts and dont like to have much interference with them. It is(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Rita Corcoran
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
- Informant
- Mrs Corcoran
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 32
- Address
- Prison North, Co. Mayo
