School: Convent of Mercy, Rinn an Chabhlaigh, Cóbh
- Location:
- Ringacoltig, Co. Cork
- Teacher: An tSr. Peadar
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- (continued from previous page)churn on top of it was a wooden cover with a hole about an inch an a half round through which came a handle which was attached to a perforated float, the handle was moved quickly up and down until the butter was made.
- Lissanisky got its name because there is a liss there from which a tunnel leads to the sea.
Long ago in the Penal times when Mass was celebrated on the mountains a priest was doing so on a Kerry mountain and soldiers came to arrest him. Having the Host in his hand at that time he is said to have leaped from one rock to another which were a mile apart, the print of his feet are supposed to be in the rock where he landed and from day on it was called the "Priest's(continues on next page) - Collector
- Crissie Lehane
- Gender
- Female
- Address
- Ballynoe, Co. Cork
- Informant
- Denis Lehane
- Gender
- Male
- Age
- 78
- Address
- Ballyleary, Co. Cork
