School: Ráth Chormaic (C.) (roll number 1878)
- Location:
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
- Teacher: Máiréad Ní Chonchobhair
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The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0381, Page 472
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- (continued from previous page)the long journey while their supper was getting ready To make a long story short they soon got to work and it wasn't long till the walls of the caher began to rise up like magic. The Gobán invented all sorts of queer machines to rise the great stones on to their places. Didn't he astonish the Firbolg, and show them what a Munster Milesian could do, but this was nothing to the treasure house he built inside the caher all under ground It was round and like a big beehive the stones all beautifully cut and joined together the one in the other so that you could not take out one without bringing down the whole building But I must go back to my story to tell you that the pair hadn't been long at the coort of Connaught when Darra noticed a purty fair haired blue eyed colleen that used to be waiting maid for the Queen and she herself a chieftain's(continues on next page)
- Informant
- Maighréad Ní Chonchubhair
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Rathcormack, Co. Cork
