School: Tobar Ruadh
- Location:
- Toberroe, Co. Galway
- Teacher: Séamus Ó Cinnéide
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0040, Page 0162
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- About a mile from my house there is a liss. It is about a hundred yards in from the road and there is a lot of big rocks in it.
It is a round one and there is a lot of black thorn bushes growing around it. It is higher than the rest of the land around it and it is all under-lined with very large rocks.
There is no hole anywhere in it but there is a lot of young children who were not baptised buried in it and the heaps of stones that mark the graves are to be seen in it yet.
One night a name was going across the fields near the liss and he heard a drum sounding in the bushes. Then he ran to the nearest house he would get and stayed there until morning and(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tommie Concannon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Deerpark, Co. Galway
- Informant
- Paddy Higgins
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 45
- Address
- Deerpark, Co. Galway
