School: Dún Bhéacháin (Dunbeacon) (roll number 15552)
- Location:
- Dunbeacon, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Tomás Ó Foghlú
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0290, Page 176
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- (continued from previous page)a cabhlach and his clothes were by his side. This story was told recently by the man himself.Jim Cronin: He was born in Kerry in the year 1865. He often visits this locality and he tells many fairy tales. Once he went astray in a hill near Goleen. Having spent four hours in this hill he met a woman and saluted her, but she gave no answer and she disappeared immediately.Jim Brodie - People say that he was in the Indian Revolution. He said that while he was there he was keeping watch over a dead-house where four dead soldiers lay. Every ten minutes he was obliged to hit the dead house door with his rifle. As(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Tessie Coughlan
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr J. Coughlan
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 65
- Address
- Derreennalomane, Co. Cork
