School: Cnoc an Leasa (roll number 13315)
- Location:
- Tawnagh, Co. Sligo
- Teacher: Eoghan Mac Giolla Amhlaidh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0180, Page 453
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Cnoc an Leasa
- XML Page 453
- XML “Old Ruins - Behy Castle”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
- (continued from previous page)that the Behy castle belonged to the McDonagh's.
In one of the walls in Mr. O'Connor's house there is a stone taken from that castle. It is of a rectangular shape and there is a form of a woman engraven on it. This engraving is of a red colour.
In Mr. O'Connor's garden there is an orchard. It was proved that there are ghosts in this orchard. One moon-light night two boys entered it to get apples and when they entered, there was not an apple to be seen. Nothing remained only brown withered leaves on the trees. But when morning dawned the trees were laden down with beautiful fruit for anyone to perceive.
The walls are now crumbling to the ground with age but only if these walls could speak what a sorrowful story they could enravel
- Collector
- Josephine Mc Dermott
- Gender
- Female
