School: Drom an Eargail, Áth Treasna (roll number 10361)
- Location:
- Dromanarrigle, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Domhnall Ó Caoimh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0355, Page 244
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- (continued from previous page)burn it. But one morning she sent to the forge as usual for the coals and she was barefeet and the smith said "What beautiful feet you have" and she looked down at her feet and as she did the coals of fire burned her apron because she commited the sin of pride. There is no smith in the village of Cullen it is said that the saint cursed the smith. A smith could never light a fire in Cullen since. He works about a mile from the village.
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“The ruin in this locality is Castle McAuliffe.”
The ruin in this locality is Castle McAuliffe. It is situated in the townland of Castle McAuliffe in the parish of Newmarket in the Co of Cork and in the barony of Duhallow. Cromwell made an attempt to fall it. He fired a bomb from the Island over to it, he and his men camped in the Island and the fields are still called the camp fields. The stones of the old castle were taken in to build Alworths court in Newmarket which is now a convent and is a very beautiful building. Some of the stones were also taken over to build Wood view house which was owned by the McCarties. The Castle was on the right hand bank of the river Dalua. About the last old chief of the McAuliffes strange legends are(continues on next page)
