School: An Clochar, Cathair Saidhbhín (roll number 13542)
- Location:
- Cahersiveen, Co. Kerry
- Teacher: An tSr. M. de Lourdes Stac
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- (continued from previous page)Atlantic as it stands impregnable alike to the inroads of the enemy and to the bleak winds from Coomachiste. At its back are the bold cliffs of the Dunkerron Ranges, guarding it from invasion by land.About a mile and a half from Waterville in the townland of Shanaknock stands Cathair Conraidhe at least all that now remains of it. Little of the walls of this once famous castle is now to be seen. It is supposed to be the castle of a chieftain called Conraidhe, whose wife wanted to betray him to his enemies. When they arrived in their ships in Ballinskelligs Bay, she sent them a message saying, that she would throw milk into the river when Conraidhe went to sleep. When the river ran white with milk, into the tide, they came and took away the cattle and sheep and took Conraidhe's castle and bore off his wife in triumph. The river is called the "Fionn-Glaise" or white stream till this day.
Near Kanturk in Cork are the ruins of an old castle known as the "Court" and built by McDonagh about the year 1650. This McDonagh was so cruel that he had the mortar used in the making of the castle wet with the blood of his subject and workmen. For this purpose he put to death four McCarthy boys, the sons of a widow. When the fourth was about to be sacrificed, the widow McCarthy went to the tyrant and implored of him to spare her last and only support, but he was unyielding and merciless and so McCarthy followed his three brothers. The widow was so sorrow-stricken and so enragedat this that she cursed the oppressor and his castle and she also propesied that it would never shelter a human being, but that it should be a rookery for crows and wild birds.(continues on next page)
