School: Baile an Gharrdha (B.) (roll number 2909)

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   went with lanterns by night to search the graves but after making a couple of little holes and finding nothing they gave up the search. It is said that Knockfierna is called after Donn Firinn the king of the Munster fairies who is still supposed to live under the hill in his palace. It is a tradition that a pagan God named Scusidricin had a temple to his worship where the cairn now is. The district next to the hill on the west is still called the Strickeen. There is a fort in the Strickeen called the Lisnaveean. Some say it was inhabited by giants and that one of their pastimes was casting rocks. Some of these are scattered for miles around. The broth from the giants cooking places at the flowed over and down into the valley below which is still called gleann an Anairice. In the Strickeens was the original home of Eily Hanley the "Colleen Bawn" about whom Gerald Griffin wrote a great

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   History Edit

   Topics

   1. objects
      1. man-made structures
         1. historical and commemorative structures (~6,794)

   Language

   English

   Collector

   Joseph Doody

   Gender

   Male

   Address

   Ballingarry, Co. Limerick

   Informant

   Michael O' Grady

   Gender

   Male

   Age

   81

   Address

   Gorteen, Co. Limerick