School: Oileán Baoi (Dursey) (roll number 13138)
- Location:
- Dursey Island, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Eoghan Ó Súilleabháin
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- (continued from previous page)"Twas the little man with the red eyes stole it from me," says he. He meant Amhlaoibh.There was such a heap of timber in Faill a' Ghalláin at that time that the cuas inside was dried up with it and you could walk across from Fo-Charraig Faill a' Ghalláin (at the western side of the Cuas) to Cuas a' Chomhra at the eastern side.
- On Christmas Day 1888 a schooner was sailing up towards the Dursey head going to America. She was called "The Rio". She was a very old boat and the Captain and crew were afraid to chance the voyage across. Instead of keeping going west, they turned down along the south-west of Dursey Island. They sounded the ground first under Cill Mhichíl(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Seán Ó hUrdaill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Kilmichael, Co. Cork