School: Gortlitreach (roll number 15960)
- Location:
- Gort Leitreach, Co. Liatroma
- Teacher: Seosamh Mac Cionnaith
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0220, Page 024
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- (continued from previous page)like a very old graveyard. There are small stones standing on end like as if there were people buried under them.
The stones which make up this chromlech are so big that it would take hundreds of men to lift them. It must have been giants who put them there. Old people say that there is gold hidden under them and that it is only a trap because when anyone goes to look for the gold the stone will fall in and kill him. That is a tradition which is told nobody is sure wether it is true or not.
Anyhow they are sinking down in the ground because the old people say that when they were young they could stand up full height in them and now you have to stoop to get in.(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Brigid Mc Kenna
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 14
- Address
- An Ladhar, Co. Liatroma
- Informant
- Mrs K. Gannon
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 80
