Scoil: Kerrykeel (uimhir rolla 6849)

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1. Archaeological (ar lean)

   

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   dig the soil away again from around the standing stones.
   The general opinion regarding this dolmen is that it marks the burial place of a Chieftain.
   Some people are of the opinion that there are probably valuables buried under it. One old man felt so sure of this that he commenced digging under it but I think that fear of the stones toppling in on him caused him to give up his excavating.

   In the same townland there is a large single stone about which a strange story is told.
   The stone is lying in a field of a farmer named McMahon.
   The story is that this stone was placed in an erect position by a priest or monk (how it was done by the man I don't know) who is supposed to have said that as long as the stone remained in an erect position there would be no rats in Fanad.
   The rector of the Protestant Church in Fanad is said to have arrived one day with a number of soldiers (red coats) and have tumbled the stone.
   It is said that when he reached home that evening he found his horses dead in their

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