School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)

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1. Penal Times

   

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   It is said that mass used to be said in an old cablach in Libeen Hill during the Penal Times. That spot was chosen because it is a very quiet place and a priest used to come and say mass there. The ruins of the cabhlach are still to be seen and every night a light can be seen near the ruins. We can see that light from our door at any time of the night from about ten o'clock until morning.

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   Topics

   1. time
      1. historical periods by name (~25)
         1. the great famine (~4,013)
         2. penal times (~4,335)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Mary O' Sullivan

   Gender

   Female

   Address

   Shantullig North, Co. Cork

   Informant

   Mr John Sullivan

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   59

   Address

   Shantullig North, Co. Cork

2. Local Happenings

   

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   Account of Drowning.
   Near a great big lake called Faill Bheag lake in Kilcrohane there lived a Mc Carthy family. One night about a hundred years ago one of the family aged eighteen years went out swimming in the lake as he used take a

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