School: Scoil an Chúrnánaigh, Caisleán Nua Thiar
- Location:
- Newcastle, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Ss. Ó Riain
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0488, Page 401
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- "Sprid na Beárna"
It was an evening in the close of the eighteenth century. The crimson sun sank slowly, carefully as it were over the dreaded Luachra hils. What terror such sunsets brought each evening to the inhabitants of the peaceful little valley of "Barnagh", nestling in among the hills the only gap or opening in the great range.
Another day was dead. Dead as a particle of time but destined to be alive for ever in the history of the small(continues on next page)
- Collector
- John Joe Harnett
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Barnagh, Co. Limerick
- Informant
- Mrs Dowling
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Barnagh, Co. Limerick
