School: Tíréaltan, Maghcromtha (roll number 13286)
- Location:
- Teerelton, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Dd. Ó Murchadha
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- Kilmichael burial ground is situated on the ancient road leading from the northern towns of County Cork to the southern towns. Its site is supposed to be on a lios or fort which was called "Lismongeen". A Catholic Church stood there before the Reformation and there is a tradition about it that a priest who intended to build a church found it difficult to select the exact spot where it should be erected. It is said that he had either a premonition or an inspiration that he should travel along this fore-mentioned old road and in the spot where he should see two goats browsing there he should erect(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Joan O' Riordan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Cooldorragha, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Eugene O' Riordan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Cooldorragha, Co. Cork