School: Clochar na Trócaire, Ceann tSáile
- Location:
- Kinsale, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Úna
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0319, Page 282
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- (continued from previous page)residents of the locality began to take a pride in this tree and as its roots struck deeper and even deeper into the close under soil they told the history of it to their children.
A generation ago or more when the public water supply of Kinsale of which we hear so much in our day, was even poorer than it is now, people used sit by the Abbey Well during a summer night with their earthenware jugs awaiting their turn to bail a cupful of water from the square shallow hole at the bottom. To while away the hours many a story went the rounds - stories of what happened in the Abbey or in the neighbourhood generations earlier; also predictions of future events,(continues on next page)
- Collector
- Eílis Ní Shúirdáin
- Gender
- Female
- Informant
- Séamus Breathnach
- Gender
- Male
