School: Fadhbach, Caisleán na Mainge (roll number 10016)
- Location:
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Ml. Ó Tíodhcháin
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- To the south west of Cathair Con Rí near the fé bogs there is a place called Gleanntán na Crónach. It means the glen of the swine. In ancient times when people were coming from Camp fair they saw a lot of swine coming down the glen.
The swine consisted of a sow and a litter of suckling bonhams. They belonged to no earthly person and disappeared again as they came and that is the reason it was called Gleanntán na Crónach.- Collector
- Sighle Foley
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- Informant
- Thomas Cahillane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 76
- Address
- Fybagh, Co. Kerry
- About twenty years ago a travelling man named Peter OHalloran put up for a night at John O Briens house Gortaleen.
This was the first time he was noticed about the place and he was a sage. He told them they mass was celebrated on a rock some where in the neighbourhood in olden times and that there was a whitethorn tree not far from the rock and that there was a crock of gold under a flag beneath the tree. The whitethorn tree is about 20 yard north east of the rock and unbaptised babies were buried around it.