School: Dún Gar (Frenchpark) (roll number 3961)
- Location:
- Frenchpark, Co. Roscommon
- Teacher: Tomás Mac Mághnuis
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0243, Page 285
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- (continued from previous page)to be cut up for firewood. Now the moment an axe was struck into one of the lengths to split it a peculiar red fluid issued from the cleft, which had all the appearances of blood when I saw it myself I was sure it was blood. They didn't attempt to split any more of it. Anyhow the few slivers they cut off it would not burn. At just the same time the tree at St. Attracta's well on the Sligo boundary as you go to Boyle fell and possessed exactly the same property. It too had the name of being a "hanging tree". A teacher in Co. Kerry told me they have a song there of a Connaughtman who fled to Kerry to escape "Inghean Seán Ó Dáibhís". This was the inghean and the connection I mentioned on page 8.
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