School: Scoil na mBráthar, Dún ar Aill (roll number 16682)
- Location:
- Doneraile, Co. Cork
- Teacher: P.E. Mac an Airchinnigh
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0374, Page 114
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- (continued from previous page)the date of his death. She killed him.
She used to stand on the top of the castle and kill all the ploughmen within sight of her. One man overcame her. He tied woodbine sticks on to the horses harness, when she saw him she knew she was defeated. She flung herself from the battlements and was killed.
When it used come near midnight whet ever people would be looking for the gold in the castle, a clocking hen used to appear to them and hunt them, and they used all run.
- Informant
- Mrs E. Neenan
- Gender
- Female
- Age
- 42
- Address
- Ballymague, Co. Cork
