School: Berrings (Measctha) (roll number 4186)
- Location:
- Berrings, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Drisceoil
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0348, Page 147
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- (continued from previous page)for the person who buried the first corpse there. In order to gain the prize some parties procured the carcass of a pig, placed it in a coffin and had it buried in the new graveyard. Hence the name "Teampall Muice".
Another story says of it that a certain outlaw lived near Macroom and that he was hotly pursued by the authorities. His friends spread the rumour that he had died, and to make the matter look real a funeral took place, the funeral of the outlaw to Inniscarra. The man was not dead however and the coffin contained only the carcass of a pig and hence the name Teampall Muice.
- Collector
- D. O Driscoll
- Address
- Berrings, Co. Cork
