School: Ceathrú na gCloch, Gleann Fraoigh (roll number 12806)
- Location:
- Ceathrú na gCloch, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Teacher: Bríd Bhreathnach
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0128, Page 538
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- Bríd Bhreathnach
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- Address
- Muine Chonalláin, Co. Mhaigh Eo
- Many legends are told in connection with Lisin Beag and here is one of them:
Shortly after the famine of '47, a poor farmer lived on a few barren acres near Lisin Beag.
He was in wretched circumstances having sold his one cow at the fair of Moyne, to pay the landlord.
Spring came and he had no seed.
