School: Béal Átha Fhinghín (B.)
- Location:
- Ballineen, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Beircheart Seártan
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0310, Page 140
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“Mr Jennings before he died ploughed a liss and set garden there after being warned not to interfere with it...”
Mr Jennings before he died ploughed a liss and set garden there after being warned not to interfere with it. He died before it could be dug and the potatoes were very bad with him.
They uncovered a big slab which was closing a passageway into the liss. Dan Cary and Micheal Coakley went down the passag but soon had to return owing to foul air. The passage led towards Carey's liss about a quarter of a mile away. The two lisses are in Currycrowley townland.
There is a broken headstone in Ballymoney and here is how it was broken and the strange story concerning it. Underneath this headstone is buried an Orangeman named Captain Thomas St Leger [?] It was broken by a bowl thrown by a young man. It hit the headstone accidently and broke it.
This man told the priest and the priest told him never again to sleep in a protestant house.
The boy told him he would do as he told him but(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Donal O' Neill
- Gender
- Male
- Informant
- Mr Dan Carey
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 40
- Occupation
- Feirmeoir
- Address
- Curraghcrowly East, Co. Cork