School: Cromadh (B.)
- Location:
- Croom, Co. Limerick
- Teacher: Dáithí Ó Ceanntabhail
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- (continued from previous page)Note to second paragraph on opposite page: Although the place name quoted - Coill man an Iarla - is always so pronounced here, I believe the word "Kyle" is really Cill and that the name should be Cill mac an Iarla.
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- Collector
- Daithí O Ceanntabhail
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Múinteoir
- The "Koshthe Bower" - Cóisde Bodhar - or or headless coach comes down High St. (Croom) and turns up the Lane towards Islanmore. There are four headless horses under it and a headless coachman driving them. It is like a hearse. Anyone who sees it never does an hour's good.
- Some 60 to 65 years ago, there was a frost of exceptional keenness about the beginning of December. Pat Allen tells me that the gentlemen of Limerick were skating on Loch na gCoipe, and there was no ice(continues on next page)