School: Scoil na Mainistreach (roll number 1793)
- Location:
- Killarney, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An Br. P.C. Mac Niallghuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0455, Page 045
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- The townland in which I live is so called because of a Lios which is in the locality. It was owned by a man named OBizen and so the name of the surrounding district is Lissivigeen.
The Lios is surrounded by a high ditch and many oak trees grow in it. The field in which it is in is (called) never tilled and a tree in never taken from within it because the people say this Lios is the abode of fairies and that it is not right to interfere with them.
About a mile from this Lios is a similar one except that it is enclosed by three large dykes each making a circle outside each other. People say it was the Danes who built this Lios others say it was used by the Irish when fleeing from the Danes.
About a mile to the north west of Lissivigeen school is a small field and in this field five large stones stand in a circle and two larger ones at a distance from them.
It is believed that these five stones were children once and were dancing for their(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mrs D. O Sullivan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 47
- Address
- Inchycullane, Co. Kerry
