1. dúchas.ie
  2. The Schools' Collection
  3. Beann-chorr

School: Beann-chorr (roll number 13808)

Location:
Banagher, Co. Mayo
Teacher:
Tadhg Ó Hairt
Browse
Mode:
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 191

Archival Reference

The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0141, Page 191

Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.

See copyright details.

Download

Open data

Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

  1. XML School: Beann-chorr
  2. XML Page 191
  3. XML “The Red Colonel”

Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.

On this page

  1. The Red Colonel

    Share Share Post
    The Red Colonel
    There lived a priest in Lacken at the time of the Red Colonel in Castlelacken. When the full tide would be on the strand, he would have to come through the Red Colonel's land to the Chapel for to say Mass. The Colonel did not like it. At that time there was a door on the end of the Chapel, so the Colonel ordered the priest not to come out on that door any more, because he was making a path through the land. The priest said that he would come every day. Then the Colonel ordered his servants to bar up the door so that the priest would not be able to come in or out on it.
    The next Sunday there were three priest at dinner at the
    (continues on next page)
    Transcribed by a member of our volunteer transcription project.
    History Edit
    Language
    English
    Location
    Castlelackan Demesne, Co. Mayo
    Collector
    Kathleen Lynn
    Gender
    Female
    Address
    Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo
    Informant
    John Lynn
    Gender
    Male
    Age
    50
    Address
    Carrowtrasna, Co. Mayo