School: Mercy Convent, Longford (roll number 12942)
- Location:
- An Longfort, Co. an Longfoirt
- Teacher: Sr Clement
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- (continued from previous page)it was very often explored. It is said that those who explored it heard the sound of hammering and churning.
It is said that those forts were built by the as fortresses. It is said the Danes used lie behind the banks or fence (which surrounds the fort) and when the Irish came they would dive out on them and then there would be a battle.
The owners of the land in which the fort is would not plough or cut any trees because they would be afraid of the fairymen which lived in them and if anyone did cut any trees in the fort the fairymen would always haunt them and sooner or later they would kill them with their magic power lights and music have often been seen and heard in the fort.- Collector
- May Breaden
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- An Longfort, Co. an Longfoirt
- Informant
- Mr Donlon
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 44
- Address
- An Longfort, Co. an Longfoirt