School: Scairt (B.), Cill Dairbhe (roll number 4126)
- Location:
- Scart, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Pádraig Ó Rinn
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0375, Page 217
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- Long ago some men were levelling a field in [?] farm and they came on a door and they took it up and they found an opening.
They went into it and they found three rooms and two flights of stairs. It was left open for some time and all the people came to see it.
But one day a calf went into it and he kept roaring all day. Then someone went down for him and they failed to find any calf, but they saw a crowd of people.
They got afraid and it was shut up and ever since it was called Lisnagoureen.
- Collector
- Patricia Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 15
- Informant
- Mr John Burke
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 46
- Address
- Ballynahalisk, Co. Cork
- Petticoat Loose was a woman that was seen on the road to Fermoy. When the people who were in Fermoy on a Saturday were out late she would jump into the car and stop the horse when they would be coming home.On one occasion three men(continues on next page)
