School: Baile Giolla tSionáin (B.), An Gleann (roll number 11307)
- Location:
- Ballygiltenan Upper, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Tadhg Ó Cathasaigh
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0480, Page 200
Image and data © National Folklore Collection, UCD.
See copyright details.
DownloadOpen data
Available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
- XML School: Baile Giolla tSionáin (B.), An Gleann
- XML Page 200
- XML “Folklore - A Story”
- XML “A Local Happening”
Note: We will soon deprecate our XML Application Programming Interface and a new, comprehensive JSON API will be made available. Keep an eye on our website for further details.
On this page
Folklore - A Story
“About a dozen years there lived in Glin a young man named Michael Geoghegan who was a very good swimmer.”
About a dozen years there lived in Glin a young man named Michael Geoghegan who was a very good swimmer. He often swam across the Shannon to Clare and when he arrived over he always lit a furze bush to let the people in Glin Pier know he arrived safely. One very cold day he left Glin Pier to swim across to Clare but failed and was drowned. The cause of his death it is said was that the water was too cold and he got cramps. He was not found for about a fortnight after.
- Transcription guide » You are not logged in, but you are welcome to contribute a transcription anonymously. In this case, your IP address will be stored in the interest of quality control.By clicking the save button you agree that your contribution will be available under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License and that a link to dúchas.ie is sufficient as attribution.
- Collector
- Con Mulvihill
- Gender
- Male
- Address
- Glannalappa East, Co. Kerry
