School: Cnoc an Doire (B.) (roll number 2418)
- Location:
- Knockaderry, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Seaghdha
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Micky Barry was a carpenter. He lived up the forge lane at Firies. He wanted an oak tree for to make spokes for wheels for his customers. There were oak trees growing at Batterfield. The old landlord that got them planted there was supposed to come back years after his death to mind them. His name was Mahony. Micky Barry did not believe in ghosts. One night at twelve o'clock Micky cut one of the oak trees and as soon as it fell on the ground the old landlord appeared and sat on its trunk. Micky cut up the tree except the part the landlord was sitting on and he went home and made wheels for his customers. No one ever touched the part of the tree on which the landlord sat until it decayed.
Harold Donoghue
Ballybane
Firies, Co. Kerry.Patrick Donoghue
Ballybane
Firies, Co. Kerry
- Collector
- Harold Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybane, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Patrick Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Ballybane, Co. Kerry
