What is recorded here
A child at the house in Mackney could have been sent to fetch firewood and returned with a long account of everything seen on the way. The fire still needed feeding, so the storyteller was sent out again with instructions to bring wood before the ending.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA087-180
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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Photo credits
- National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
- Jan Wyk, Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
- Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
- Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
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