School: Easgéiphtine (C.) (roll number 2040)
- Location:
- Askeaton, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Áine, Bean Mhic Eoin
Archival Reference
The Schools’ Collection, Volume 0503, Page 153
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: Easgéiphtine (C.)
- XML Page 153
- XML “A Legend”
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
- Askeaton in olden times was very famous for the legends connected with the village itself and its surroundings. One connected with a lake in Ballyhoman called "The Blue Lake," is very strange. This lake is perfectly oval in shape and even in the olden days it was believed to be very deep. The story goes that years ago two men went to test the depth of the lake They fastened a weight which was one hundred-weight on to a line and when they had let down as much of the line as they had the weight was still pulling. This showed that it had not yet reached the bottom. The line is said to have reached a distance of half a mile; therefore the lake is over half a mile deep.
- Collector
- Miss Nealon
- Gender
- Female
- Occupation
- National teacher
- Collector
- Past pupils of Askeaton
