School: An Chathair Gharbh (roll number 13896)
- Location:
- Cahergarriff, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Criostóir Ó Dubhghaill
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0277, Page 361
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“There is a story told about a man in Clounaglaskin that got a bicycle.”
(continued from previous page)donkey would feel the soft thing behind him he would stop lashing. Then he put a brake in the car because the donkey used often take head.
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“There was an old school situated at the west end of Cahergarriff.”
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- Líam Ó Murchadha
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 14
- Address
- Clonglaskan, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Michael Harrington
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 72
- Lisses are known by various names such as "Raths, Dún's, brugh's. etc. The are found mostly in the south and south west of Ireland. All these liosses were made of wood but the wooden houses that stood on a circular space inside are all gone. There is a large lios situated at the east end of Cahergorriffe. Long ago when the scholars used to be going home from school they used to be throwing stones into it, and the people were afraid that some(continues on next page)