School: Lios Uí Bhigín (B.) (roll number 8791)
- Location:
- Lissyviggeen, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: Séamus P. Ó Raghallaigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0455, Page 003
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“There are many names for fields and such places as glens, heights and hollows.”
(continued from previous page)is a large field near this school and nine stones are seen in a circle there, two big stones and seven small stones. It is also called the Druid's Circle and the Stony Girls. When the dark days of persecution were in Ireland, and when priests were not allowed to say Mass in public, it it said Mass was said there, and the people of this district attended it.
Travelling long ago
About a 150 years ago carts and carriages were not commonly in use, so going on horseback was very common. Very often a wife is to be seen riding behing her husband, this is called riding "Culóg"Joan O'Connor
Woodlawn
Killarney
- Collector
- Joan O Connor
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Woodlawn, Co. Kerry