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The Cromlech. Forts etc.

Nobody livin’ now, of course, knows how this Cromlech came to be here. Some old people say ‘twas a race of giants fixed this great big stone on the “small” ones. They say a great king or prince or leader of the giants is buried around here.

Of course, the stone was a lot bigger than ‘tis now. The weather an’ everything has it wore away.

There – a long time ago, before people came to know what it was, or that ‘twas any good – a crowd of young lads lit a bone-fire on it, and the hate of the fire made this crack here.

‘Twas a lot longer than ‘tis now anyway. I suppose the point of it was on this stone out here – for it looks like ‘twas three-cornered.

From a section marked Ballyhahill / Teenakilla in the Main Manuscript Collection of folklore online at Duchas.ie, collected in 1939.

There is a Cromlic in the townland of Annaghmore. It is beside a road. There are two stones standing up and one big one across on the top. There is a tract of five fingers in one of these stones and in the other one there is a tract of an elbow and in the third one there is a tract of a foot.

It is said that a giant pegged these stones down from the top of Corn Hill and that it is there they lit.

It is like a little house. There is place for about two people to sit in it. It is said that about fifty years ago an old man used to be seen sitting in this Cromlic and he smoking a pipe.

I think the implication might be that the “old man” wasn’t exactly an old man. This is from the Main Manuscript Collection of Duchas.ie, and the folklore was collected in 1938.