School: Ballaghameehan (roll number 13908)
- Location:
- Tullyskeherny, Co. Leitrim
- Teacher: John Eames
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0189, Page 174
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Ballaghameehan
- XML Page 174
- XML “St Molaise”
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
- (continued from previous page)to heaven and when he turned back again the leaf was there. This book is preserved in the Musuem in Dublin. It is called the "Soisgeal Molaise." It was left in the charge of an O'Meehan family where it was kept until about eighty years ago. It was afterwards sold to a landlord for £60:0:0 and then sent to a the Museum in Dublin. Long ago people used to swear by this book, and it was said that if a person swore a lie on this book, he would go mad.
- Collector
- John Eames
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Teacher
- Address
- Tullyskeherny, Co. Leitrim
