School: Baile an Bhuitléirigh, Tigh Molaga
- Location:
- Butlerstown, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Mícheál Ó Muimhneacháin
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- Up to 50 years ago in this locality, the headless coach was commonly believed to travel certain roads about midnight. Some held that a carriage could be seen whilst others held that they could see nothing but could hear the noise as of a carriage being driven quietly along. It later became to be applied to any person habitually late in returning from town on market day.
- In Travara. Larry Neill and his wife lived over 80 years ago. They had a dispute. Larry agreed to let his wife drown him. She tied his hands behind his back and stood him on the cliff edge. She ran to push him in. He stepped aside and she fell in. He was tried but no case could be proved against him. No grass grew on the cliff since. Up to 40 years ago a song bearing on the incident was current in the district. Portion of it is as follows(continues on next page)
