School: Clochar na Toirbhirte, Mainistir na Corann (roll number 512)
- Location:
- Midleton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Seosamh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0395, Page 233
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- Cahermone Castle is built about a mile east of Midleton. It is only a few fields south of the Main Road to Youghal. It is near the railway line from Cork to Youghal. It was built by Barry Fitzgerald in the year 1182.
Some people say that it is haunted. It is said that a man hanged himself there long ago. He hanged himself with his hankerchief. Some people who were picking firewood found him and they got a terrible fright. One woman went for the police.
Long ago some men went digging for a gold table. They had a large hole dug and had a ladder leading to it. One morning when they came out to it all the earth had fallen in to it and they did not dig it anymore. The mark where they were digging is there still. It is said that there is a treasure hidden in the castle garden but no one knows the exact spot where it is hidden.
We are told that one of the Fitzgerald family went to visit the English King but the King was absent at the time and he was received very rudely by the soldiers(continues on next page) - Collector
- Mary Flynn
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cahermone, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mrs Flynn
- Relation
- Parent
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cahermone, Co. Cork
