School: Ceapach Chuinn (B.) (roll number 1936)
- Location:
- Cappoquin, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Proinnsias Ó Laoghaire
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“One day a woman was down catching small fry with a bucket and a rope tied to it.”
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(My grandfather Tom Kean told me this story. Thomas McCarthy.- Long ago the Seanabhests and the Carabhats used to come to the "Cats" * to fight. They used to use sticks and stones and often killed one another with them. The Carabhats generally won. The girls used to come to see the fights. One day Tom O'Donnell's mother [since dead] saved the life of a Carabhat. The man's name was John Fox. He was attacked by all the Seanabhests and he would have been killed if Mrs. O'Donnell hadn't thrown herself on him to protect him when he was lying unconscious.The two factions often went to Mountain Castle * to fight and it was seldom any man left the fair without getting some kind of a blow.(continues on next page)