Scoil: Béal an Átha Móir (B.)

Ar an leathanach seo

1. (gan teideal)

   “In the townland of Lanour there grows on a barren stretch of road one large tree known locally as the Spy Tree.”

   

   Roinn Roinn Postáil

   In the townland of Lanour there grows on a barren stretch of road one large tree known locally as the Spy Tree.

   Tradition has it that in the black old days of '98 a man who sold a priest to the Redcoats paid the penalty of his crime at this place. On the sixteenth of October the infuriated peasantry riddled the spy with musket balls and afterwards chained his body to the tree where it rotted away month by month.
   Anyone who passes this tree after dark on the 16th of October can see the strange drama acted there again, and many people will tell you that a strange odour surrounds the silent spy tree, and the people, say it is the odour of the decaying body of the spy just as it

   (leanann ar an chéad leathanach eile)

   

   Tras-scríofa ag duine dár meitheal tras-scríbhneoirí deonacha.

   Stair Athraigh

   Teanga

   Béarla

   Bailitheoir

   Seán Flood

   Inscne

   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Béal an Átha Móir, Co. Liatroma

   Faisnéiseoir

   John Giblin

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   Fireann

   Seoladh

   Droim Seanbhó, Co. Liatroma