School: Colthurst, An Bhlárna (roll number 6717)
- Location:
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Teacher: S. Ó Laoghaire
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- (continued from previous page)it difficult for the enemy to shoot in.
When the Mc Carthy's were being hunted they deposited all their gold in the Lake, and it is said a lady appeared on a white horse on this Lake every seven years after.
The large hall inside the main door was called the Reception Hall where a beautiful marble fireplace can still be seen. - "Blarney Castle stands up straight
Built upon a rock so neat,
And the Blarney boys are underneath,
Playing "The Groves of Blarney".
Blarney Castle, my Darling,
It's nothing at all but a stone,
With a small little taste of old ivy,
Around the Sasenach's stone".- Collector
- Pádraig Ó Donnabháin
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blarney, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Mr Mc Sweeney
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Blarney, Co. Cork