School: Baile Uí Chorráin, Eóchaill (roll number 7441)
- Location:
- Ballycurrane South, Co. Waterford
- Teacher: Eibhlín, Bean Uí Háirdín
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0640, Page 233
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- Liosanna are plainly seen in many districts near the school. Quite close to the school in the same townsland - Ballycurrane - are three or rather were for one of them Crunnigans is gone. Coughlans is a field or so down from the school. Healys is at the other side of the stream running down from the well. Both are just round mounds with trees growing on them. There is no account of a passage in either of these. A part of Healys has been dug away at one side and the clay etc. coming out of it is a peculiar black colour. Some loads of it were brought here to to the school about nine years ago to make a dry path in from the road. It set like cement and gave it the appearance in patches of a tarred road.
Bones were got there at one time but whether they were animal or human nobody knows. Old people used to say they heard music there at night long ago.Crunnigans ploughed out the lios and as a result there is no one of the name there to day. The house is in ruins and the farm was bought by Merrinans.Probably the nearest Lios to these is Hallorans in Kilgabriel. This differs from the others in the fact that it has a passage and underground(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Mr James Scanlon
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmore, Co. Waterford
