School: Lubhghortán, Scoil Mhuire (roll number 4172)
- Location:
- Lowertown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máire, Bean Uí Mhathúna
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 005
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- (continued from previous page)was used by the druid Priests and that it was leading to a fort.
There is a protestant graveyard in the Altar townland called "Teampuill na mbocht." It got its name because all the dead people that were found dead around the place during the famine were buried there. The first person that was buried there was a man that was found dead on the side of the road, and the grave is still to be seen faced the wrong way.
One night a man from Dunmanus who is dead now was coming from Schull. He was drunk and he was singing very loudly. When he was near the graveyard a man dressed in black caught him from the back. He did(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Kathleen Mc Carthy
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Arderrawinny, Co. Cork
- Informant
- John O' Driscoll
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 90
- Address
- Dunmanus, Co. Cork
