School: Mercy Convent, Rathangan
- Location:
- Rathangan, Co. Kildare
- Teacher: Sr. M. Pádraig
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- The "Leap"
There is a place in Allen, Co. Kildare called The Leap. It is said that one day Finn Mac Cumhall gave a step from the Hill of Allen, and his foot landed at the bottom of the hill on putting his foot on the ground he got a thorn in it, and when he took it out and threw it away, a white thorn bush sprung up from the earth. A ;little spring of clear water now marks the place of his footprint.
This incident was told to me by Mrs. Michael Byrne. The Factory, Barnfield, Rathangan: aged about sixty six; as she heard it from her mother.
Mary K Burke- Collector
- Mary K. Burke
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Mrs Michael Byrne
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- c. 66
- Address
- Rathangan, Co. Kildare