The van was then driven some 800 metres north and a mile-long wire attached to a triggering device was added to the bomb. The excavator moved up the ramp and lifted the van onto the railway. The van was fitted with wheels that could run on the rails. This was to be used to build a makeshift ramp up to the Dublin–Belfast railway line, which drew parallel to the Dublin–Belfast motorway (M1).Īt the same time, other IRA members stole a Renault Master van in Dundalk, which was then loaded with 2,200 lb (1,000 kg) of home-made explosives. The compound, just north of the village of Cloghoge in County Armagh, was wrecked by the explosion.ĭuring the late hours of 30 April, a group of four Provisional IRA members held a family hostage in Killeen and stole a mechanical excavator. A large bomb was placed inside the van, which was then driven along the railway line to the target. The IRA's South Armagh Brigade fitted a van with wheels that allowed it to move along a railway line. There is singing also heard in it.The attack on Cloghoge checkpoint was an unconventional bomb attack carried out on by the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army permanent vehicle checkpoint (PVCP-R15).
The man followed her as far as the house, and when he looked in on the window, he saw her spinning wool.Įvery night between twelve and two o'clock, the rattling of chains is to be heard. When she arrived at the house, she jumped in on the window. She began to run towards the nearest house to her. On the minute the rabbit was changed into a woman. One day a man went out hunting and had not gone far, when he saw a rabbit sitting in a fort. There is another story connected with this fort. As soon as they said these words, the horses got up and began to walk about. They then promised that from that day forward, they never would interfere with a fort again. They ran round and told all the neighbours what had happened. They got frightened as soon as they saw what had happened. As soon as they began to dig up the ground, the horses fell dead.
One day two men began to plough up the field. If anyone interfered with the fort, it is said that they would die before that day twelve months. It is said that it was the Tuatha De Dannans that made it.
There is a cave in this fort, and sometimes people have gone down and explored it. The old people tell us that it's not lucky to interfere with the forts, as they belong to the fairies.Here's another story about the raths in Cloghoge Upper: The nearest fort to my home is situated in Mc Gaughan's field. There were also a number of wild animals seen in the vicinity of the fort. He bought the cow, and that man told him how his daughter was taken away by the fairies, and so it happened that the girl who was taken out of the coffin belonged to the man who sold the cow. Sometime afterwards the man of the house went to the fair to buy a cow. They asked her who she was, but she did not know, so they kept her in the house. When they reached the house they opened the coffin, and they found a live girl inside it. At first they did not know what to do, but after some time they decided to bring it to their house. As they were going along, they took the coffin to carry it, but as soon as they took it the funeral went away, and the two young men were left to carry the coffin. The two young men decided to go back a small piece with the funeral. One night as two young men were coming home from a neighbours house, they saw a funeral coming from the fort, and as it was the custom of that time, that anyone who met a funeral should go back a few yards with it. There is an entrance hole to it, and two fishing rods would not reach to the end of it. It is said that there was a man ploughing in the field, and that he went to plough the fort also, but the fort opened up and swallowed the plough and horses. There are a number of old stories attached to it. There is a fence around it, and there is also a plantation of trees around it. It is circular in shape, and for this reason also it is called a ring. Johnny Walsh's fort is situated about half a mile from the school. These forts were built in the time of the Finbolg, and they used them to preserve their houses from the wild animals and from their enemies. There are a number of forts in this locality and some of them are Johnny Walsh's fort, John Dwyer's fort, Mick Murren's, and the one in the castle field. The documents from the 1930s are being digitised at duchas.ie. This is a story from the Schools Collection of the National Folklore Collection.
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