School: Berrings (Measctha) (roll number 4186)

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   a sword. The soldiers left the church but on leaving a great storm arose. All the soldiers were killed by lightning and next morning the people of the locality buried them in the graveyard near the Shournagh River in Courtbrack. That night the graveyard shifted from Courtbrack beyond the Shournagh to Mathey in the parish of Inniscarra where it is at present.
   The old people say that tombstones can be seen by the bank of the River Shournagh to this day and that traces of the old graveyard at Courtbrack can still be seen. This moving or flying of the graveyard from Courtbrack to Mathey was responsible for the name Matehy (moving plain): at least as it is locally believed.
   This story is well known locally.

   

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   Long ago there lived an old woman who used to go out every May morning in the form of a hare and milk her neighbours cows. She used to turn herself into a hare in order that she would not be seen by the people. One May morning as she went into her neighbours field in the form of a hare the owner of the field saw her. The man set his dogs at her and the hare ran into a house. The man went into the house and there

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   Language

   English

   Collector

   Cornelius Herlihy

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Berrings, Co. Cork