School: Bouleenshere (C.) (roll number 12865)
- Location:
- Booleenshare, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Mary A. Walsh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0417, Page 370
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- (continued from previous page)that separated him from it and by doing so, the water overran the Church and grave, and hence it got the name "Teampull Fó-Thuinn" or the Church under the waves.
Not long after the husband died also and orders were given that he too should be buried in the same grave with his wife. As the Cantillons were unable to take the coffin out to the middle of the sea, they took it to the edge of the Cliff and laid it there as was done with all Cantillon people that died, and during the night the coffin used be taken out to sea and buried there.
This poor mother felt as lonely after her son as the father did after his daughter and she was so broken-hearted that she went to the edge of the cliff and sat beside the coffin all night. She was not long there when she noticed four(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Delaney
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballyheige, Co. Kerry
