School: Drom Dhá Liag (B.) (roll number 12229)
- Location:
- Drimoleague, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Ciardha
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0301, Page 108
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: Drom Dhá Liag (B.)
- XML Page 108
- XML “Place Names”
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)of Toneagh, Drimoleague. A poor man formerly lived there, and he kept a goat which was always grazing in the field.
Páirc a'Ghutha - a field situated in the townland of Kilscohanagh, Drimoleague. There is a path leading through the field. One night a man was coming home from a neighbour's house at a very late hour. He decided to go through the field as it was much nearer than to go around the road he had scarcely entered the field when he heard several voices all round him. As he advanced through the field the voices began to increase in number. He was very frightened and told the neighbours, who came on the following night and they also heard the voices. The field has ever since been known as Páirc a' Ghutha or the field of the voices.
Crainnín an t-Sionnaigh - a tree on the left side of the road about a mile to the south of Drimoleague. It is said that a white fox used to sit under this tree every night with the result that no one would pass the place after nightfall.
Céim Beic - a hill about two miles to the south of Drimoleague. A woman named Rebecca lived there long ago and ever since the place(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Diarmuid Donovan
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John Donoghue
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Dromdaleague, Co. Cork
